Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film

by Ryan Bishop

Book Overview

This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. This is a historical and conceptual study discussing the comedy narrative, comic traditions, and role of visual culture.
Grounded in the theoretical writing of Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Friedrich Kittler and Jacques Derrida, Bishop brings a new perspective to comedy in film suggesting that it is central to staging cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748698043
• ISBN13: 9780748698042
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"