Currents of Comedy on the American Screen
Title | Currents of Comedy on the American Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Laham |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0786453834 |
This book analyzes the evolution of film and television comedy from the 1930s through the present, defining five distinct periods and discussing the dominant comedic trends of each. Chapters cover the period spanning 1934 to 1942, defined by screwball comedies that offered distraction from the Great Depression; the suspense comedy, reflecting America's darker worldview during World War II; the 1950s battle-of-the-sexes comedy; the shift from the physical, exaggerated comedy of the 1950s to more realistic plotlines; and the new suspense comedy of the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on the popular "dumb cop" or "dumb spy" series along with modern remakes including 2006's The Pink Panther and 2008's Get Smart.
Laughing Hysterically
Title | Laughing Hysterically PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Sikov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780231079822 |
Rejecting the notion that the 1950s was a bleak, conformist decade in the US, this study argues that the era's film comedies reflect the period's underappreciated artistic and social rebelliousness.
Trick, Treat, Transgress
Title | Trick, Treat, Transgress PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Danneil |
Publisher | Schüren Verlag |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2021-09-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3741001457 |
The Simpsons are not only the world's most famous TV family; they are also the protagonists of one of the longest-lasting animation programs in US television. Over the course of the past thirty years, the yellow five from Springfield have become an indispensable part of American popular culture which still turns academics into fans and inspires fans to research the objects of their fascination. This book focuses on the Halloween Special TREEHOUSE OF HORROR, a part of THE SIMPSONS which research has largely left unnoticed. If THE SIMPSONS revolutionized how we look through television at US-American culture and society, TREEHOUSE OF HORROR has changed the way we re-member popular-culture history by way of horror traditions. This study demonstrates how Matt Groening's cartoon shows have painted a yellow archive of the digital age.
Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down
Title | Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0231161093 |
The image of a heavily pregnant woman, once considered ugly and indecent, is now common to Hollywood film. No longer is pregnancy a repulsive of shameful condition, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female protagonist. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family.
Current Opinion
Title | Current Opinion PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 888 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Books |
ISBN |
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film
Title | Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan Bishop |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2013-04-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0748677801 |
How does comedy in film attempt cultural criticism? How does cinema use its own visual technology to reflect on and critique its power within both politics and visual culture? Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film addresses these questions in detail as it argues for the centrality of comedy in film as a means of staging cultural criticism. Focusing on the powerful and sustained shifts in visual culture that cinema helped to generate, foster and question in the twentieth century, it examines the issues of technology that allow film comedies to engage in self-reflexive cultural criticism and to produce and critique the use of visual technology within US and global cultural politics. Grounded in the theoretical writings of thinkers such as Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Friedrich Kittler and Jacques Derrida in relation to repetition, automation, material systems of information media, the level of address in a communicative act, and the shifting role of the image, this book considers comedy as integral for a critical engagement of the constructs of culture. It brings a new perspective to comedy in film, invaluable to students and scholars in Film Studies.
Current Biography Yearbook
Title | Current Biography Yearbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 680 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography |
ISBN |