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"...a solid text that should be appealing to most humorists, film critics, linguists, rhetoricians, educators, and a general public interested in the history of film comedy." - Humor, William B. Covey, Slippery Rock University
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Examining the evolution of American film comedy since the beginning of the sound era (c. 1930), Christopher Beach focuses on how language, class, and social relationships in early sound comedies by the Marx Brothers, the screwball comedies of the 1930s by Capra, Sturges and others, and 1950s comedies of Frank Tashlin and Vincente Minnelli, and contemporary films by Woody Allen, Whit Stillman, and the Coen brothers. Beach argues that sound and narrative expanded the semiotic and ideological potential of a film, providing moments of genuine social critique and also mass entertainment. Christopher Beach teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and has taught at the University of Montana and Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of three books on American poetry, including Poetic Culture (Northwestern, 1999). This is his first book on film.
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"...a solid text that should be appealing to most humorists, film critics, linguists, rhetoricians, educators, and a general public interested in the history of film comedy." - Humor, William B. Covey, Slippery Rock University
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Examining the evolution of American film comedy since the beginning of the sound era (c. 1930), Christopher Beach focuses on how language, class, and social relationships in early sound comedies by the Marx Brothers, the screwball comedies of the 1930s by Capra, Sturges and others, and 1950s comedies of Frank Tashlin and Vincente Minnelli, and contemporary films by Woody Allen, Whit Stillman, and the Coen brothers. Beach argues that sound and narrative expanded the semiotic and ideological potential of a film, providing moments of genuine social critique and also mass entertainment. Christopher Beach teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and has taught at the University of Montana and Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of three books on American poetry, including Poetic Culture (Northwestern, 1999). This is his first book on film.
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Although Hollywood films of the Depression era would never take the vanguard of social critique, they exerted a powerful influence on the way Americans perceived their place within an increasingly divided society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postwar comedies, screwball genre, status panic, postmodern comedy, linguistic habitus, sound comedy, comedian comedy, success ethic, film comedy, screwball comedy, cable guy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marx Brothers, New York, Broadway Bill, Duck Soup, The Girl, The Lady Eve, Deeds Goes, Animal Crackers, The Palm Beach Story, Horse Feathers, Miss Totten, Woody Allen, Peter Warne, Sir Alfred, Dan Brooks, Desert Inn, Father of the Bride, Frank Capra, Jerry Lewis, Monkey Business, New Jersey, Preston Sturges, Raising Arizona, Mandrake Falls, Nathan Arizona New!
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Although Hollywood films of the Depression era would never take the vanguard of social critique, they exerted a powerful influence on the way Americans perceived their place within an increasingly divided society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postwar comedies, screwball genre, status panic, postmodern comedy, linguistic habitus, sound comedy, comedian comedy, success ethic, film comedy, screwball comedy, cable guy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marx Brothers, New York, Broadway Bill, Duck Soup, The Girl, The Lady Eve, Deeds Goes, Animal Crackers, The Palm Beach Story, Horse Feathers, Miss Totten, Woody Allen, Peter Warne, Sir Alfred, Dan Brooks, Desert Inn, Father of the Bride, Frank Capra, Jerry Lewis, Monkey Business, New Jersey, Preston Sturges, Raising Arizona, Mandrake Falls, Nathan Arizona New!
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- The Lady Eve by Preston Sturges on 14 pages
- Christmas in July by Preston Sturges on 5 pages
- Annie Hall by Woody Allen on 4 pages
- Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success by Joseph McBride on 4 pages
- Stardust memories by Woody Allen on 4 pages
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- Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film by Anne Bower on page 267, and page 279
- Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film by Anne Bower on page 267, and page 279
- American Literature and Culture 1900-1960 (Blackwell Introductions to Literature) by Gail McDonald in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Christopher Beach in Front Matter
- Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader (In Focus-Routledge Film Readers) by Frank Krutnik on page 198
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