Classical Hollywood Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Hollywood Comedy write by Kristine Brunovska Karnick. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Classical Hollywood Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.
Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader
Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader write by Frank Krutnik. This book was released on 2003. Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen, comedians and the contexts within which they worked have not always received their due in scholarly discussions of cinema culture. Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader seeks to fill this gap, combining distinguished work on comedian comedy produced since the early 1980s together with more recent material that explores the genre's contemporary revival. This reader provides a comprehensive guide to a range of comedians, contexts and issues: from the silent films of Chaplin and Keaton to the early sound comedy of Mae West and the Marx Brothers, and from the gender dynamics of Hope and Crosby, Lucille Ball and Jerry Lewis to contemporary comedians such as Jim Carrey and Chris Rock. In addition to exploring issues of genre, narrative, stardom and performance, the reader also traces how comedian films manage representations of otherness that are defined through ethnicity, race, class, gender and the body. Articles are grouped in thematic sections, each exploring a central issue to the study of comedian comedy, and featuring an editor's introduction outlining the context of issues and debates. Sections include: *Genre, narrative and performance *Approaches to silent comedy *Sound comedy, the vaudeville aesthetic and ethnicity *Comedian comedy and gender *Post-classical comedian comedy
The Classical Hollywood Reader
The Classical Hollywood Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Classical Hollywood Reader write by Stephen Neale. This book was released on 2012. The Classical Hollywood Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Pursuits of Happiness
Pursuits of Happiness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pursuits of Happiness write by Stanley Cavell. This book was released on 1981. Pursuits of Happiness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.
Popular Film and Television Comedy
Popular Film and Television Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Film and Television Comedy write by Frank Krutnik. This book was released on 2006-10-19. Popular Film and Television Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the nature of these forms and conventions and to relate them to their institutional contexts. They propose that all forms and modes of the comic involve deviations from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms, and, to demonstrate this, they discuss a wide range of programmes and films, from Blackadder to Bringing up Baby, from City Limits to Blind Date, from the Roadrunner cartoons to Bless this House and The Two Ronnies. Comedies looked at in particular detail include: the classic slapstick films of Keaton, Lloyd, and Chaplin; Hollywood's 'screwball' comedies of the 1930s and 1940s; Monty Python, Hancock, and Steptoe and Son. The authors also relate their discussion to radio comedy.
