Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film

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  • Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film Book Detail

  • Author : Ryan Bishop
  • Release Date : 2013-04-22
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Genre : Performing Arts
  • Pages : 192
  • ISBN 13 : 0748677801
  • File Size : 71,71 MB
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Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film by Ryan Bishop PDF Summary

Book Description: How does comedy in film attempt cultural criticism? How does cinema use its own visual technology to reflect on and critique its power within both politics and visual culture? Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film addresses these questions in detail as it argues for the centrality of comedy in film as a means of staging cultural criticism. Focusing on the powerful and sustained shifts in visual culture that cinema helped to generate, foster and question in the twentieth century, it examines the issues of technology that allow film comedies to engage in self-reflexive cultural criticism and to produce and critique the use of visual technology within US and global cultural politics. Grounded in the theoretical writings of thinkers such as Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Friedrich Kittler and Jacques Derrida in relation to repetition, automation, material systems of information media, the level of address in a communicative act, and the shifting role of the image, this book considers comedy as integral for a critical engagement of the constructs of culture. It brings a new perspective to comedy in film, invaluable to students and scholars in Film Studies.

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