The last laugh [[electronic resource] ] : strange humors of cinema / / edited by Murray Pomerance
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| Titolo: |
The last laugh [[electronic resource] ] : strange humors of cinema / / edited by Murray Pomerance
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| Pubblicazione: | Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/617 |
| Soggetto topico: | Laughter in motion pictures |
| Wit and humor in motion pictures | |
| Altri autori: |
PomeranceMurray <1946->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The last laugh |
| ISBN: | 0-8143-3855-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788329103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contemporary approaches to film and media series.