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Author : Ryan Bishop
Release : 2013
Genre : Comedy films
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Book Rating : 818/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film by : Ryan Bishop
Download or read book Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film written by Ryan Bishop. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryan Bishop
Release : 2013
Genre : Comedy films
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 071/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film by : Ryan Bishop
Download or read book Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film written by Ryan Bishop. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. This is a historical and conceptual study discussing the comedy narrative, comic traditions, and role of visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical writing of Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Friedrich Kittler and Jacques Derrida, Bishop brings a new perspective to comedy in film suggesting that it is central to staging cultural criticism. He discusses themes such as repetition, automation, material systems of information media, the level of address in a communicative act, and the shifting role of the image. Key features Close analysis of two films to illustrate key points in each chapter Relevant both to film and cultural studies Chronological treatment
Author : Ryan Bishop
Release : 2014-11-28
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film by : Ryan Bishop
Download or read book Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film written by Ryan Bishop. This book was released on 2014-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film.
Author : Christopher Beach
Release : 2002-02-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 097/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Class, Language, and American Film Comedy by : Christopher Beach
Download or read book Class, Language, and American Film Comedy written by Christopher Beach. This book was released on 2002-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the development of sound comedy as a cinematic form. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s, filmmakers recognized that sound and narrative enlarged the semiotic and ideological potential of film. Analyzing the use of language in the films of the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, among others, Class, Language, and American Film Comedy traces the history of Hollywood from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis.
Author : Darrell Y. Hamamoto
Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 766/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Countervisions by : Darrell Y. Hamamoto
Download or read book Countervisions written by Darrell Y. Hamamoto. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, Countervisions examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. This anthology focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and cross-over successes. Essays of film criticism and interviews with film makers emphasize matters of cultural agency--that is, the practices through which Asian American actors, directors, and audience members have shaped their own cinematic images. One of the anthology's key contributions is to trace the evolution of Asian American independent film practice over thirty years. Essays on the Japanese American internment and historical memory, essays on films by women and queer artists, and the reflections of individual film makers discuss independent productions as subverting or opposing the conventions of commercial cinema. But Countervisions also resists simplistic readings of "mainstream" film representations of Asian Americans and enumerations of negative images. Writing about Hollywood stars Anna May Wong and Nancy Kwan, director Wayne Wang, and erotic films, several contributors probe into the complex and ambivalent responses of Asian American audiences to stereotypical roles and commerical success. Taken together, the spirited, illuminating essays in this collection offer an unprecedented examination of a flourishing cultural production. Author note: Darrell Y. Hamamoto is Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology, Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Poltics of Television Representation, and New American Destinies: a Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration. Sandra Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
