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Analyses the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. It offers a historical and conceptual study discussing the comedy narrative, comic traditions, and role of visual culture.

Table of Contents
1 American Film Comedy and Cultural Critique; 2 The Feeding Machine and Feeding the Machine: Silence, Sound and the Technologies of Cinema; 3 The Constitution of the Real: Documentary, Mockumentary, and the Status of the Image; 4 Parody: Targeting Cinema's Narrative Technics; 5 The Unspeakable and Political Satire: Performance, Perception, and Technology; 6 Conclusion: Between the Machine and the Event: Film Comedy.

Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 30 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780748643073
      978-0748643073
      ISBN-10 0748643079
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Analyses the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. It offers a historical and conceptual study discussing the comedy narrative, comic traditions, and role of visual culture.

      Table of Contents
      1 American Film Comedy and Cultural Critique; 2 The Feeding Machine and Feeding the Machine: Silence, Sound and the Technologies of Cinema; 3 The Constitution of the Real: Documentary, Mockumentary, and the Status of the Image; 4 Parody: Targeting Cinema's Narrative Technics; 5 The Unspeakable and Political Satire: Performance, Perception, and Technology; 6 Conclusion: Between the Machine and the Event: Film Comedy.

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