| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Contemporary approaches to film and media
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the great corrective / Murray Pomerance -- Laughing silently / Matthew Solomon -- Wellesian laughter / James Morrison -- Jerry made his day / Jean-Michel Frodon -- Noir at play / Thomas Leitch -- "So bad it's good": critical humor in science fiction cinema / Christine Cornea -- Wrenching departures: mortality and absurdity in avant-garde film / David Sterritt -- Time's timing and the threat of laughter in Nicolas Roeg's Don't look now / George Toles -- The gangster giggles / Murray Pomerance -- If only they had meant to make a comedy: laughing at Black swan / Adrienne L. McLean -- Foolish bum, funny shit: scatological humor in Hal Hartley's not-so-comedic Henry Fool / David Martin-Jones -- Homeric laughter in The treasure of the Sierra Madre / R. Barton Palmer -- "Why so serious?": battling the comic in The dark knight / Dominic Lennard -- The laughter of robots / Linda Ruth Williams. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Laughter in motion pictures.
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Laughter in motion pictures. |
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Wit and humor in motion pictures.
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Wit and humor in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Pomerance, Murray, 1946- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780814335130 0814335136 (DLC) 2012040676 |
| ISBN |
0814338550 (electronic book) |
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9780814338551 (electronic book) |
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9780814335130 (paperback) |
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0814335136 (paperback) |
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