Comedy/Cinema/Theory / / Andrew Horton

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1991]; ©1991
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/617
• Soggetto topico: Comedy films - History and criticism; Comic, The; Film; Music, Dance, Drama & Film
• Persona (resp. second.): HortonAndrew
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Comedy
• ISBN: 0-520-91025-7; 0-585-29948-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248240103316
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