Historical Comedy on Screen
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
205 pages
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20 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2011
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Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Mad History of the World
Hannu Salmi
Part I: Comedians and Comic Representations
Chapter 2: Buster Keaton’s Comedies of Southern History: Our Hospitality and The General
Susan E. Linville
Chapter 3: Comedians and Romance: History and Humour in Kalabalik
David Ludvigsson
Chapter 4: From Ideal Husbands to Berserk Gargoyles: A Survey of Period Comedies Representing the British Past in the 1950s and 1960s
Harri Kilpi
Chapter 5: Forms of History in Woody Allen
Maurice Yacowar
Part II: No Laughing Matter
Chapter 6: No Laughing Matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in Cinema
David Archibald
Chapter 7: A Killer Joke? World War II in Post-War British Television and Film Comedy
Rami Mähkä
Chapter 8: ‘Holocaust-Nostalgia’, Humour and Irony: The Case of Pizza in Auschwitz
Hagai Dagan
Chapter 9: Comedy and Counter-History
Marcia Landy
Index
Hannu Salmi
Part I: Comedians and Comic Representations
Chapter 2: Buster Keaton’s Comedies of Southern History: Our Hospitality and The General
Susan E. Linville
Chapter 3: Comedians and Romance: History and Humour in Kalabalik
David Ludvigsson
Chapter 4: From Ideal Husbands to Berserk Gargoyles: A Survey of Period Comedies Representing the British Past in the 1950s and 1960s
Harri Kilpi
Chapter 5: Forms of History in Woody Allen
Maurice Yacowar
Part II: No Laughing Matter
Chapter 6: No Laughing Matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in Cinema
David Archibald
Chapter 7: A Killer Joke? World War II in Post-War British Television and Film Comedy
Rami Mähkä
Chapter 8: ‘Holocaust-Nostalgia’, Humour and Irony: The Case of Pizza in Auschwitz
Hagai Dagan
Chapter 9: Comedy and Counter-History
Marcia Landy
Index
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