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UNINA9910456252703321 |
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Autore |
Beach Christopher |
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Titolo |
Class, language, and American film comedy / / Christopher Beach [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-12456-5 |
0-511-60634-6 |
0-511-32360-3 |
1-280-41931-8 |
0-521-80749-2 |
0-511-04447-X |
0-511-15787-8 |
0-511-17699-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Comedy films - United States - History and criticism |
Speech and social status - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 A TROUBLED PARADISE; 2 WORKING LADIES AND FORGOTTEN MEN; 3 THE SPLIT-PEA SOUP AND THE SUCCOTASH; 4 IS CLASS NECESSARY?; 5 DESPERATELY SEEKING STATUS; 6 IS THERE A CLASS IN THIS TEXT?; 7 YUPPIES AND OTHER STRANGERS; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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