Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History With Humour - Couverture souple

 
9781841503677: Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History With Humour
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ISBN 10 : 1841503673 ISBN 13 : 9781841503677
Editeur : Intellect Books, 2011

Synopsis

In 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history "the cruelest goddess of all." This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are few places this is more evident than in historical cinema which tends to portray the past in a somber manner.

Historical Comedy on Screen examines this tendency paying particular attention to the themes most difficult to laugh at and exploring the place where comical and historical storytelling intersect. The book emphasizes the many oft-overlooked comical renderings of history and asks what they have to tell us if we begin to take them seriously.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hannu Salmi is professor of cultural history at the University of Turku in Finland and coeditor of the series Studies on Popular Culture, also published by Intellect.

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Éditeur
Intellect Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1841503673
ISBN 13 
9781841503677
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
205
Éditeur
Salmi Hannu
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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