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A Companion to Film Comedy

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A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the silent days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context

  • A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present
  • International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea
  • Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works
  • Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic
  • Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1175g
  • Dimensions: 182 x 255mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Nov 2012
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781444338591

About

Andrew Horton is the Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma USA. An award-winning screenwriter he is also the author of twnty-eight books on film screenwriting and cultural studies including Screenwriting for a Global Market (2004) Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay (2nd edition 2000) and The Films of Theo Angelopoulos (2nd edition 1999). His screenplays include Brad Pitts first feature film The Dark Side of the Sun (1988) and the award-winning Something in Between (1983) directed by Srdjan Karanovic. He has led screenwriting workshops around the world as well as across the United States. Joanna E. Rapf is Professor of English and Film & Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma USA. She writes regularly about film comedy with recent essays on Woody Allen Jerry Lewis Roscoe Arbuckle Harry Langdon and Marie Dressler and has edited books on a range of subjects including Sidney Lumet On the Waterfront and Buster Keaton.

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