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Class, Language, and American Film Comedy

By Christopher Beach

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0521807492, 9780521807494, 9780511020421
LCC
PN1995.9.C55 B43 2002
Open Library ID
OL3943973M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
903 kB (924862 bytes)
Pages
250\251
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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