1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248240103316

Titolo

Comedy/Cinema/Theory / / Andrew Horton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1991]

©1991

ISBN

0-520-91025-7

0-585-29948-X

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/617

Soggetti

Comedy films - History and criticism

Comic, The

Film

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes on the Sight Gag -- Penis-size Jokes and Their Relation to Hollywood's Unconscious -- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Comedy and Matricide -- In Search of Radical Metacinema -- Mock Realism: The Comedy of Futility in Eastern Europe -- Charles Chaplin and the Annals of Anality -- The Light Side of Genius: Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the Screwball Tradition -- Cartoon and Narrative in the Films of Frank Tashlin and Preston Sturges -- The Three Stooges and the (Anti-)Narrative of Violence: De(con)structive Comedy -- Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man -- Woody Allen's Zelig: An American Jewish Parody -- The Mouse Who Wanted to F—k a Cow: Cinematic Carnival Laughter in Dusan Makavejev's Films -- Selected Bibliography and Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452521403321

Autore

Josephs Kelly Baker

Titolo

Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / / Kelly Baker Josephs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8139-3507-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

New World studies

Disciplina

810.9/9729

Soggetti

Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism

Mental illness in literature

National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Madness, Caribbeanness and the process of nation-building -- Manias and messiahs: man-man and the madness of Miguel Street -- The necessity for madness: negotiating nation in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron -- "Fighting mad": between sides and stories in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Shared dreams and collective delirium in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- "Claims to social identity": madness and subject formation in Jane and Louisa will soon come home -- Epilogue: Madness and migration in the new millennia.