The last laugh [electronic resource]
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Title |
The last laugh [electronic resource] : strange humors of cinema / edited by Murray Pomerance. |
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Publisher |
Detroit : Wayne State University Press |
Creation Date |
[2013] |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index. English |
Content |
Introduction: the great corrective / Murray Pomerance -- Laughing silently / Matthew Solomon -- Wellesian laughter / James Morrison -- Jerry made his day / Jean-Michel Frodon -- Noir at play / Thomas Leitch -- "So bad it's good": critical humor in science fiction cinema / Christine Cornea -- Wrenching departures: mortality and absurdity in avant-garde film / David Sterritt -- Time's timing and the threat of laughter in Nicolas Roeg's Don't look now / George Toles -- The gangster giggles / Murray Pomerance -- If only they had meant to make a comedy: laughing at Black swan / Adrienne L. McLean -- Foolish bum, funny shit: scatological humor in Hal Hartley's not-so-comedic Henry Fool / David Martin-Jones -- Homeric laughter in The treasure of the Sierra Madre / R. Barton Palmer -- "Why so serious?": battling the comic in The dark knight / Dominic Lennard -- The laughter of robots / Linda Ruth Williams. |
Series |
Contemporary approaches to film and media |
Extent |
1 online resource (260 p.) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010711391805171 |
MARC RECORDS
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