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Comedy/cinema/theory

Andrew Horton c1991 © University of California Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780520069978 (hardcover)
  • 9780520070400 (paper)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • Introduction (Andrew Morton, page 1)
  • Problematics of Film Comedy
    • Notes on the Sight Gag (Noël Carroll, page 25)
    • Penis-size Jokes and Their Relation to Hollywood's Unconscious (Peter Lehman, page 43)
    • Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Comedy and Matricide (Lucy Fisher, page 60)
    • In Search of Radical Metacinema (Stephen Mamber, page 79)
    • Mock Realism: The Comedy of Futility in Eastern Europe (Charles Eidsvik, page 91)
  • Comic Occasions
    • Charles Chaplin and the Annals of Anality (William Paul, page 109)
    • The Light Side of Genius: Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the Screwball Tradition (Dana Polan, page 131)
    • Cartoon and Narrative in the Films of Frank Tashlin and Preston Sturges (Brian Henderson, page 153)
    • The Three Stooges and the (Anti-)Narrative of Violence: De(con)structive Comedy (Peter Brunette, page 174)
    • Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man (Scott Kukatman, page 188)
    • Woody Allen's Zelig: An American Jewish Parody (Ruth Perlmutter, page 206)
    • The Mouse Who Wanted to F--k a Cow: Cinematic Carnival Laughter in Dusan Makavejev's Films (Andrew Morton, page 222)
  • Selected Bibliography and Works Cited (page 241)
  • Contributors (page 245)
  • Index (page 247)
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PC 2.2 (Jan. 1992) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v002/2.2r_morrison.html
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