A Companion to Film Comedy

Notes on Editors and Contributors = ⅸ Comic Introduction: "Make 'em Laugh, make 'em Laugh!" = 1 Part Ⅰ Comedy Before Sound, and the Slapstick Tradition 1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid: Some Trends in American and European Film Comedy from 1894 to 1929 = 15 2 Pie Queens and Virtuous Vamps: The Funny Women of the Silent Screen = 39 3 "Sound Came Along and Out Went the Pies": The American Slapstick Short and the Coming of Sound = 61 Part Ⅱ Comic Performers in the Sound Era 4 Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays: Carnivalesque Comedy and the Marx Brothers = 87 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance = 111 6 Woody Allen: Charlie Chaplin of New Hollywood = 130 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation = 151 Part Ⅲ New Perspectives on Romantic Comedy and Masculinity 8 Humor and Erotic Utopia: The Intimate Scenarios of Romantic Comedy = 175 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004) and Before Sunset(2004) = 196 10 The View from the Man Cave: Comedy in the Contemporary "Homme-com" Cycle = 217 11 The Reproduction of Mothering: Masculinity, Adoption, and Identity in Flirting with Disaster = 236 Part Ⅳ Topical Comedy, Irony, and Humour Noir 12 It's Good to be the King: Hollywood's Mythical Monarchies, Troubled Republics, and Crazy Kingdoms = 251 13 No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You(1938) = 273 14 The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be = 293 15 Dark comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude = 315 Part Ⅴ Comic Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity 16 Black Film Comedy as Vital Edge: A Reassessment of the Genre = 343 17 Winking Like a One-Eyed Ford: American Indian Film Comedies on the Hilarity of Poverty = 365 18 Ethnic Humor in American Film: The Greek Americans = 387 Part Ⅵ International Comedy 19 Alexander Mackendrick: Dreams, Nightmares, and Myths in Ealing Comedy = 409 20 Tragicomic Transformations: Gender, Humor, and the Plastic Body in Two Korean Comedies = 432 21 Comedy "Italian Style" and I soliti ignoti(Big Eeal on Madonna Street, 1958) = 454 22 "Laughter that Encounters a Void?: Humor, Loss, and the Possibility for Politics in Recent Palestinian Cinema = 474 Part Ⅶ Comic Animation 23 Laughter in Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream: The Case of Animated Comedy = 497 24 Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated Portmanteau to the Risus Purus = 521 Index = 545

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