| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 251 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index. |
| Contents |
Problematics of film comedy. Notes on the sight gag / Noël Carroll -- Penis-size jokes and their relation to Hollywood's unconscious / Peter Lehman -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child : comedy and matricide / Lucy Fischer -- In search of radical metacinema / Stephen Mamber -- Mock realism : the comedy of futility in eastern Europe / Charles Eidsvik -- Comic occasions. Charles Chaplin and the annals of anality / William Paul -- Light side of genius : Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the screwball tradition / Dana Polan -- Cartoon and narrative in the films of Frank Tashlin and Preston Sturges / Brian Henderson -- Three stooges and the (anti- )narrative of violence : de(con)structive comedy / Peter Brunette -- Paralysis in motion : Jerry Lewis's life as a man / Scott Bukatman -- Woody Allen's Zelig : an American Jewish parody / Ruth Perlmutter -- Mouse who wanted to f--k a cow : cinematic laughter in Dusan Makavejev's films / Andrew Horton. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- History and criticism.
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Comedy films. |
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Comic, The.
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Comic, The. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Horton, Andrew, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comedy/cinema/theory. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991 0520069978 (DLC) 90042213 (OCoLC)22005599 |
| ISBN |
9780520910256 (electronic book) |
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0520910257 (electronic book) |
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058529948X (electronic book) |
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9780585299488 (electronic book) |
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0520069978 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520069978 (alkaline paper) |
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0520070402 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520070400 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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