Hunter / Porter British Comedy Cinema

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-50837-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: British Popular Cinema

British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history.

This edited volume will offer the first comprehensive account of the rich and popular history of British comedy cinema from silent slapstick and satire to contemporary romantic comedy. Using a loosely chronological approach, essays cover successive decades of the 20th and 21st Century with a combination of case studies on key personalities, production cycles and studio output along with fresh approaches to issues of class and gender representation. It will present new research on familiar comedy cycles such as the Ealing Comedies and Carry On films as well as the largely undocumented silent period along with the rise of television spin offs from the 1970s and the development of animated comedy from 1915 to the present.

Films covered include: St Trinians, A Fish Called Wanda, Brassed Off, Local Hero, The Full Monty, Four Lions and In the Loop.

Contributors: Melanie Bell, Alan Burton, James Chapman, Richard Dacre, Ian Hunter, James Leggott, Sharon Lockyer, Andy Medhurst, Lawrence Napper, Tim O’Sullivan, Laraine Porter, Justin Smith, Sarah Street, Peter Waymark, Paul Wells

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunter, I.Q.

Porter, Laraine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. British comedy cinema: sex, class and very naughty boys, Laraine Porter and I.Q. Hunter 2. British silent comedy: from slapstick to satire, Laraine Porter 3. No limit: British class and comedy of the 1930s, Lawrence Napper 4. ‘Northern films for Northern people’ – the story of the Mancunian Film Company, C.P. Lee 5. Ealing Comedies 1947–1957: ‘The bizarre British, faced with yet another extraordinary situation’, Tim O’Sullivan 6. ‘From adolescence into maturity’: the film comedy of the Boulting Brothers, Alan Burton 7. Margaret Rutherford and comic performance, Sarah Street 8. A short history of the Carry On films, James Chapman 9. Gird your armour on: the genteel subversion of the St. Trinian’s films, Andrew Roberts 10. Norman Wisdom: Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump, Richard Dacre 11. From telly laughs to belly laughs: the rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off, Peter Waymark 12. From window cleaner to potato man: confessions of a working class stereotype, I.Q. Hunter 13. Making Ben-Hur look like an epic: Monty Python at the movies, Justin Smith 14. Travels in Curtisland: Richard Curtis and British comedy cinema, James Leggott 15. ‘The sight of 40 year old genitalia too disgusting, is it?: wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation 1900 – present, Paul Wells

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Hunter is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University and Director of the Centre for Adaptations at De Montfort University. He co-edits two book series, British Popular Cinema (Routledge) and Screen Adaptations and is also on the steering committee of the Association of Adaptation Studies.

Laraine Porter is also Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University.