03102nam 2200661 a 450 991081335060332120200520144314.01-107-12456-50-511-60634-60-511-32360-31-280-41931-80-521-80749-20-511-04447-X0-511-15787-80-511-17699-6(CKB)111082128285910(EBL)202134(OCoLC)475916931(SSID)ssj0000122972(PQKBManifestationID)11142154(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122972(PQKBWorkID)10173739(PQKB)11466227(UkCbUP)CR9780511606342(MiAaPQ)EBC202134(Au-PeEL)EBL202134(CaPaEBR)ebr10021925(CaONFJC)MIL41931(EXLCZ)9911108212828591020010323d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClass, language, and American film comedy /Christopher Beach1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press20021 online resource (vii, 241 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-00209-5 0-511-02042-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.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; INDEXThis 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.Comedy filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismSpeech and social statusUnited StatesComedy filmsHistory and criticism.Speech and social status791.43/617Beach Christopher573538MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813350603321Class, language, and American film comedy4073822UNINA