{"product_id":"historical-comedy-on-screen-subverting-history-with-humour-9781841503677","title":"Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history “the cruelest goddess of all.” This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are few places this is more evident than in historical cinema which tends to portray the past in a somber manner. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Historical Comedy on Screen\u003c\/em\u003e examines this tendency paying particular attention to the themes most difficult to laugh at and exploring the place where comical and historical storytelling intersect. The book emphasizes the many oft-overlooked comical renderings of history and asks what they have to tell us if we begin to take them seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Mad History of the World  – Hannu Salmi, University of Turku   \u003cstrong\u003ePART I: COMEDIANS AND COMIC REPRESENTATIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e Buster Keaton’s Comedies of Southern History: \u003cem\u003eOur Hospitality\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe General\u003c\/em\u003e – Susan E. Linville, University of Denver   From Ideal Husbands to Berserk Gargoyles: Comic Representations of the British Past in the 1950s and 1960s – Harri Kilpi, University of Helsinki   Comedians and Romance: History and Humour in Kalabalik – David Ludvigsson, University of Uppsala   Woody Allen and History – Maurice Yawocar, University of Calgary   \u003cstrong\u003ePART II: NO LAUGHING MATTER\u003c\/strong\u003e   No Laughing Matter? Comedy and The Spanish Civil War – David Archibald, University of Glasgow   A Killer Joke? World War Two in Post-War British Television and Film Comedy – Rami Mähkä, University of Turku   “Holocaust-Nostalgia”, Humor and Irony: The Case of Pizza in Auschwitz – Hagai Dagan, Sapir College   Comedy and Counter-history – Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburg","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042922856791,"sku":"9781841503677","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841503677.jpg?v=1750956240","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/historical-comedy-on-screen-subverting-history-with-humour-9781841503677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}