Hannu Salmi (ed.), Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History with Humour

Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History with Humour is a collection of eight loosely connected papers on film comedies set in the historical past. The book quite deliberately focuses on what scholarship has traditionally considered popular or low culture and, at the same time, emphasizes th...

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Hlavní autor: Gantar, Jure
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Belphégor 2013
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History with Humour is a collection of eight loosely connected papers on film comedies set in the historical past. The book quite deliberately focuses on what scholarship has traditionally considered popular or low culture and, at the same time, emphasizes the anti-establishment streak that even the mainstream historical comedies possess. Despite the inevitably commercial goals to which the relentless pursuit of laughter leads successful historical com...