03125nam 22006492 450 991081335060332120151005020622.01-107-12456-50-511-60634-60-511-32360-31-280-41931-80-521-80749-20-511-04447-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)9911108212828591020090910d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClass, language, and American film comedy /Christopher Beach[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 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.Class, Language, & American Film ComedyComedy filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismSpeech and social statusUnited StatesComedy filmsHistory and criticism.Speech and social status791.43/617Beach Christopher573538UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910813350603321Class, language, and American film comedy4073822UNINA