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OverviewThis 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, Ryan 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ryan BishopPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780748643073ISBN 10: 0748643079 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 30 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1 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.Reviews"Bishop offers a rich contextualized history of the American comedy film. Covering a wide range of films and theorists, the book makes a unique contribution to both film studies and visual culture studies. He explores the way comic films - as complex textual, technological, and social constructs - contributed to the specific forms and powers of visuality in twentieth-century modernities.-- ""Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill""" Author InformationRyan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics at Winchester School of Art, and co-director of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art and Design Media, University of Southampton. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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