Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index. Includes filmography.
Contents:
Introduction : the narrative pattern of Italian film comedy -- Postwar comedy: neorealist comedy and pink neorealism -- The birth of comedy Italian style: narrating the myth of the economic miracle -- Humor Italian style: the masks of conformity -- The characters of comedy Italian style -- A psychopathology of the society of enjoyment -- The comedy is over: the dissolution of a psychostic society.
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