Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781903364352
Comedy is one of the most popular forms in film. But what exactly is film comedy and what might be the basis of its widespread appeal? This book takes a multi-perspective approach to answering these questions.
Author : Graham Elwood
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1614482217
"The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies" brings what has been missing from movie discussion for too long: A healthy dose of humor. This is the first time ever two filmmakers who are also comedians give their views on film. It will bring movie discussion to a younger audience in a way they can relate to it without all the stodgy film school discussion. This is a movie book for film and comedy fans, by filmmakers and comedians. In the way that Jon Stewart and Bill Mahr have brought comedy to politics, Chris and Graham will do this for film.
Author : Anthony Balducci
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078648893X
Classic comedy routines and individual gags have been around for many hundreds of years, probably thousands; the best of these ribticklers make their merry way through theater, circus, film and television. The challenge to comedians has always been to adapt familiar material in a way that emphasizes their personal style and outlook. The many routines and gags cited in this illustrated history are lovingly deconstructed to show how they have been shaped to suit different eras and performers. These tried and true laugh-provokers are indestructible. Through all the remakes, revivals, recycles and revamps, they have survived robustly to the present day. As these timeless comedy gems are traced to their beginnings and followed through the years, readers are taken on a mirthful journey from Keystone to Zombieland.
Author : Frank Krutnik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134946864
Covers a wide range of comedy with examples taken from Chaplin, Daffy Duck, Bilko, Ben Elton, Woody Allen and many others Locates comedy within the history and institutions of cinema and broadcasting
Author : Saul Austerlitz
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2010-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1569767637
Charlie Chaplin. Buster Keaton. The Marx Brothers. Billy Wilder. Woody Allen. The Coen brothers. Where would the American film be without them? Yet the cinematic genre these artists represent--comedy--has perennially received short shrift from critics, film buffs, and the Academy Awards. Saul Austerlitz’s Another Fine Mess is an attempt to right that wrong. Running the gamut of film history from City Lights to Knocked Up, Another Fine Mess retells the story of American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother--the comedy. In 30 long chapters and 100 shorter entries, each devoted primarily to a single performer or director, Another Fine Mess retraces the steps of the American comedy film, filling in the gaps and following the connections that link Mae West to Doris Day, or W. C. Fields to Will Ferrell. The first book of its kind in more than a generation, Another Fine Mess is an eye-opening, entertaining, and enlightening tour of the American comedy, encompassing the masterpieces, the box-office smashes, and all the little-known gems in between.
Author : Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786488603
This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two popular Hollywood staples that emerged around the same time. Despite their contrast in tone and theme, "Screwball" and "Noir" have many narrative elements in common. The author defines the two genres, discusses their historical development and inter-related conventions, and offers detailed comparative analyses of a number of films, among them The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday (screwballs), and Gilda and Sunset Blvd. (noirs).
Author : Scott Siegel
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
An A to Z guide to film comedies. Illus.
Author : Andrew Horton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1119169550
A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors
Author : Kristine Brunovska Karnick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135213232
Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.
Author : Christopher Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2002-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521002097
This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the development of sound comedy as a cinematic form. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s, filmmakers recognized that sound and narrative enlarged the semiotic and ideological potential of film. Analyzing the use of language in the films of the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, among others, Class, Language, and American Film Comedy traces the history of Hollywood from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis.
