Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film
Author:   Ryan Bishop (Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9780748698042


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   28 November 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film


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This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. This is a historical and conceptual study discussing the comedy narrative, comic traditions, and role of visual culture. The important innovators of American film comedy and the role of visual technology within cultural politic are discussed, as well as theorists such as Freud, Baudrillard, and Derrida. Key features* Close analysis of two films to illustrate key points in each chapter* Relevant both to film and cultural studies* Chronological treatment

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Author:   Ryan Bishop (Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780748698042


ISBN 10:   0748698043
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   28 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. American Film Comedy and Cultural Critique: Glitches in the Smooth Running of the Social Machine; 2. The Feeding Machine and Feeding the Machine: Silence, Sound and the Technologies of Cinema; 3. The Constitution of the Real: Documentary, Mockumentary and the Status of the Image; 4. Parody: Targeting Cinema's Narrative Technics; 5. The Unspeakable and Political Satire: Performance, Perception and Technology; 6. Conclusion: Between the Machine and the Event: Film Comedy.

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Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP).

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