Historical Comedy on Screen

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Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Historical films

Mots Clés

humor, historical films, comedy

Année d'édition

2011

Editeur

Intellect Books

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 205 pages
7 x 9 inches (18 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-84150-367-7

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Description de l'ouvrage:
In 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.

Historical Comedy on Screen 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.

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