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Title:

Historical comedy on screen : subverting history with humour / edited by Hannu Salmi.

Publisher:

Intellect,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Comedy films--History and criticism.
Historical films--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Salmi, Hannu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

ch. 9 Comedy and counter-history / Marcia Landy. ch. 2 Buster Keaton's comedies of Southern history: Our hospitality and The general / Susan E. Linville -- ch. 3 Comedians and romance: history and humour in Kalabalik / David Ludvigsson -- ch. 4 From ideal husbands to Berserk Gargoyles: a survey of period comedies representing the British past in the 1950's and 1960's / Harri Kilpi -- ch. 5 Forms of history in Woody Allen / Maurice Yacowar -- ch. 6 No laughing matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in cinema / David Archibald -- ch. 7 A killer joke? World War II in post-war British television and film comedy / Rami Mähkä -- ch. 8 'Holocaust-nostalgia', humour and irony: The case of pizza in Auschwitz / Hagai Dagan-- ch. 9 Comedy and counter-history / Marcia Landy.

ISBN:

1841503673
9781841503677

OCLC:

(OCoLC)738405044

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word Seminary - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)