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Informationen zum Autor 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 Pitt's 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. Klappentext 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 "This work is indispensible for any student or scholar who, in the spirit of Rabelais, Swift, and Chesterton, will laugh while studying film images. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers." ( Choice, 1 July 2013) Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging celebration of the variety and complexity of international film comedy covers work from the days of silent movies to the present on a global scale, including Europe, the Middle East and Asia as well as the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Editors and Contributors ix Comic Introduction: ''Make 'em Laugh, make 'em Laugh!'' 1 Part I Comedy Before Sound, and the Slapstick Tradition 1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid: Some Trends in American and European Film Comedy from 1894 to 1929 15 Frank Scheide 2 Pie Queens and Virtuous Vamps: The Funny Women of the Silent Screen 39 Kristen AndersonWagner 3 ''Sound Came Along and OutWent the Pies'': The American Slapstick Short and the Coming of Sound 61 Rob King Part II Comic Performers in the Sound Era 4 MutiniesWednesdays and Saturdays: Carnivalesque Comedy and the Marx Brothers 87 Frank Krutnik 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance 111 KevinW. Sweeney 6 Woody Allen: Charlie Chaplin of New Hollywood 130 David R. Shumway 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation 151 Henry Jenkins Part III New Perspectives on Romantic Comedy and Masculinity 8 Humor and Erotic Utopia: The Intimate Scenarios of Romantic Comedy 175 Celestino Deleyto 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) 196 Leger Grindon 10 The View from the Man Cave: Comedy in the Contemp...
