TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bishop,Ryan
ED  - Cambridge eBooks.
TI  - Comedy and cultural critique in American film
SN  - 9780748677801 (ebook)
AV  - PN1995.9.C55 B57 2013
U1  - 791.436170973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Comedy films
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015); 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
N2  - 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
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