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Author:   I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) ,  Laraine Porter (De Montfort University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780415666671

ISBN 10:   0415666678
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. British comedy cinema: sex, class and very naughty boys 2. British silent comedy: from slapstick to satire 3. No limit: British class and comedy of the 1930s 4. ‘Northern films for Northern people’ – the story of the Mancunian Film Company 5. Ealing Comedies 1947–1957: ‘The bizarre British, faced with yet another extraordinary situation’ 6. ‘From adolescence into maturity’: the film comedy of the Boulting Brothers 7. Margaret Rutherford and comic performance 8. A short history of the Carry On films 9. Gird your armour on: the genteel subversion of the St. Trinian’s films 10. Norman Wisdom: Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump 11. From telly laughs to belly laughs: the rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off 12. From window cleaner to potato man: confessions of a working class stereotype 13. Making Ben-Hur look like an epic: Monty Python at the movies 14. Travels in Curtisland: Richard Curtis and British comedy cinema 15. ‘The sight of 40 year old genitalia too disgusting, is it?: wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation 1900 – present

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Ian Hunter is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University and Director of the Centre for Adaptations at De Montfort University. He co-edits two book series, British Popular Cinema (Routledge) and Screen Adaptations and is also on the steering committee of the Association of Adaptation Studies. Laraine Porter is also Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University.

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