02677nam 2200565Ia 450 991046354400332120200520144314.00-8143-3855-0(CKB)3170000000060429(EBL)3416512(SSID)ssj0000949480(PQKBManifestationID)11509021(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949480(PQKBWorkID)10997696(PQKB)10595902(MiAaPQ)EBC3416512(OCoLC)847609674(MdBmJHUP)muse22583(Au-PeEL)EBL3416512(CaPaEBR)ebr10715411(EXLCZ)99317000000006042920121114d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe last laugh[electronic resource] strange humors of cinema /edited by Murray PomeranceDetroit Wayne State University Press[2013]1 online resource (260 p.)Contemporary approaches to film and mediaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8143-3513-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.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.Contemporary approaches to film and media series.Laughter in motion picturesWit and humor in motion picturesElectronic books.Laughter in motion pictures.Wit and humor in motion pictures.791.43/617Pomerance Murray1946-883499MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463544003321The last laugh1973465UNINA