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American film comedy and cultural critique: glitches in the smooth running of the social media -- The feeding machine and feeding the machine: silence, sound and the technologies of cinema -- The constitution of the real: documentary, mockumentary and the status of the image -- Parody: targeting cinema's narrative technics -- The unspeakable and political satire: performance, perception and technology -- Conclusion: Between the machine and the event: film comedy.

This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. This is a historical and conceptual study discussing the comedy narrative, comic traditions, and role of visual culture. The important innovators of American film comedy and the role of visual technology within cultural politic are discussed, as well as theorists such as Freud, Baudrillard, and Derrida.