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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hannu Salmi (University of Turku)Publisher: Intellect Imprint: Intellect Books Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781841503677ISBN 10: 1841503673 Pages: 205 Publication Date: 15 May 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mad History of the World – Hannu Salmi, University of Turku PART I: COMEDIANS AND COMIC REPRESENTATIONS Buster Keaton’s Comedies of Southern History: Our Hospitality and The General – 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 PART II: NO LAUGHING MATTER 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 PittsburgReviewsAuthor InformationHannu Salmi is professor of cultural history at the University of Turku in Finland. He is a historian of film and popular culture and has published, for example, in Film & History and Screening the Past. He is the series editor of Studies in Popular Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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