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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463544003321

Titolo

The last laugh [[electronic resource] ] : strange humors of cinema / / edited by Murray Pomerance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, [2013]

ISBN

0-8143-3855-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Contemporary approaches to film and media

Altri autori (Persone)

PomeranceMurray <1946->

Disciplina

791.43/617

Soggetti

Laughter in motion pictures

Wit and humor in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.