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Call No: 71(73) EVE
Author: Everson, William K
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: vii, 387 p., [38] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: A History of the American film ; 1
Subject: USA. 1895-1930; TITLING; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; WESTERNS; COMEDIES. USA; ART DIRECTION; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 355-362
ISBN: 019502348X : $17.50
LON: 1073077

Call No: Journal shelves. Sight & Sound Special Issues
PubDate: March 1994
Subject: COMEDIES
Language: English

Author: Finney, Alan
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LEWIS, JERRY; COMEDIANS; COMEDIES; NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE (US, Jerry Lewis, 1963); WHO'S MINDING THE STORE? (US, Frank Tashlin, 1963); Keaton, Buster
Summary: Essay discusses the work of Jerry Lewis with particular reference to three films in which the characters are defined by their job and obligations: "The Bellboy", "The Errand Boy" and "The Ladies Man".

Call No: 732(94) SPE
Author: Speed, Lesley
Source: AT
Place: St. Kilda, Vic.
Publisher: Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM)
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: 128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject: COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; EFFTEE STUDIO; CINESOUND STUDIOS; HANNA, PAT; WALLACE, GEORGE; CO-RESPONDENT'S COURSE (AT, E.A. Dietrich-Derrick, 1931); DIGGERS (AT, F.W. Thring, 1931); HAUNTED BARN, THE (AT, E.A. Dietrich-Derrick, 1931); SHOWGIRL'S LUCK (AT, Norman Dawn, 1931); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, F.W. Thring, 1932); ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932); HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS (AT, F.W. Thring, 1932); DIGGERS IN BLIGHTY (AT, Pat Hanna, 1933); HARMONY ROW (AT, F.W. Thring, 1933); HAYSEEDS, THE (AT, Beaumont Smith, 1933); TICKET IN TATTS, A (AT, F.W. Thring, 1934); CLARA GIBBINGS (AT, F.W. Thring, 1934); STRIKE ME LUCKY (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1935); SPLENDID FELLOWS (AT, Beaumont Smith, 1934); GRANDAD RUDD (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1935); WHITE DEATH (AT, Edwin G. Bowen, 1936); RANGLE RIVER (AT, Clarence G. Badger, 1936); IT ISN'T DONE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1937); TALL TIMBERS (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1937); LET GEORGE DO IT (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938); DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938); GONE TO THE GOGS (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1939); ANTS IN HIS PANTS (AT, William Freshman, 1939)
Summary: Comedy has been a perpetual part of Australian film, in which humour reflects Australia's adaptation in times of crisis, social change and technological advances. This was never more so than in the 1930s, when Australia produced more comedy feature films than in any other decade before 1970. These films of the 1930s embraced the new technology of sound, made local vaudeville performers into movie stars, offered escape from the Depression and revealed a diverse and international Australia. In these films, Australia moved further from Empire and the bush, forged the Digger legend, responded to cultural diversity and viewed itself as a modern, urban nation. Influenced by Hollywood, Australian comedies of the 1930s adapted international styles to local points of view. Based on research at the National Film and Sound Archive, Lesley Speed's book provides new insight into Australian comedy films of the 1930s and the extraordinary period of social change in which they were produced. [taken from the back cober]
ISBN: 9781876467258
Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Comedy films and 1930s Australia -- Comedian comedies, Pat Hanna and George Wallace -- 'The best men in the metropolis' : Speech and language in films of Pat Hanna and George Wallace -- Strike me lucky, silly ass: Ethnicity and class difference -- From bush to the city: The Dad and Dave films -- Looking at home for 'something really ultra': Modernity, gender and the international -- Select filmography -- Select bibliography -- Notes

Call No: 730(94) AUS
Author: McWilliam, Kelly; Ryan, Mark David
Edition: 2021
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PhysDes: 248 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Rutledge advances in film studies
Subject: AUSTRALIA; GENRES; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; CRIME FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MUSICALS. AUSTRALIA; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; TEEN FILMS; WAR FILMS AUSTRALIA
Summary: Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, war, and the Western. This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, Australian studies, and sociology. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781138603141
Contents: 1. Australian Film Genre Studies / Mark David Ryan and Kelly McWilliam -- 2. The Action Genre and the ‘International Turn’ in Australian Cinema / Amanda Howell -- 3. ‘Beethoven had his Critics, too…’: The Australian Biopic in the Twenty-First Century / Adrian Danks -- 4. A Seamless Wedding: Comedy, Diversity, and the International / Lesley Speed -- 5. New Australian Crime Drama / Greg Dolgopolov -- 6. A Monstrous Landscape Filled with Killer Animals and Madmen: Tropes of Contemporary Australian Horror Movies / Mark David Ryan -- 7. The Musical in Australia: Moving Minorities into the Mainstream / Liz Giuffre -- 8. Traversing Genre: The Australian Road Movie / Deborah Thomas -- 9. Courting the Romance / Kelly McWilliam -- 10. Looking to the Future: Three Tendencies in Australian Science Fiction Cinema since 2008 / Andrew James Couzens -- 11. ‘Growing Up Was Never Easy’: Coming of Age in the Teen Film / Kelly McWilliam -- 12. Sun-lit Noir: Australian Thrillers / Jonathan Rayner -- 13. A Wider Angle: Australia’s War Films of the New Millenia / Daniel Reynaud -- 14. Questioning the Australian Western / Grayson Cooke.

Call No: 408.1(94) MCM
Author: McMahon, Barrie; Quin, Robyn
Place: Marrickville, N.S.W.
Publisher: Science Press
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: 154 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; STARS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Includes index; For senior secondary school students; Bibliography: p. 147-148
ISBN: 085583174X (pbk.)
LON: 7030358

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; WEDDING RINGER, THE (US, Jeremy Garelick, 2015)
Author: Wilson, Jake
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: COMEDIES. USA; WEDDING RINGER, THE (US, Jeremy Garelick, 2015)
Summary: Review of 'bromance' comedy, The Wedding Ringer, starring Josh Gad and Kevin Hart.
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

Call No: 79BAR MOR
Author: Moore, Tony
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Currency Press, Australian Film Commission
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: x, 86 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series: Australian screen classics
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; EVERAGE, DAME EDNA; BERESFORD, BRUCE; HUMPHRIES, BARRY; ADAMS, PHILLIP; BARRY MCKENZIE HOLDS HIS OWN (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1974); ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972)
Summary: With irresponsible humour and sharp-witted insight Tony Morre explores the subversive satire of the films, their influence on his generation, and what they have to say about who we are today. Included is a glossary of Bazza-isms written by Barry Humphries.
ISBN: 0868197483
ISSN: 1447557X

Call No: FRONT DESK
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Television & Radio School. Jerzy Toeplitz Library.
PubDate: 1993
Subject: COMEDIES; SITUATION COMEDY

Call No: 732(94) JOH
Author: Johnson, Rob, 1969; Smiedt, David
Place: Rydalmere, N.S.W.
Publisher: Hodder Headline Australia
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: viii, 376 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; COMEDY PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIENNES. AUSTRALIA; ADAMS, PHILLIP; GLEISNER, TOM; MCDERMOTT, PAUL; O'DONOGHUE, RORY; BAILEY, BERT; BOND, GRAHAME; BOURNE, SHANE; BROWN, NOELINE; CILAURO, SANTO; CHATER, GORDON; CREYTON, BARRY; DENTON, ANDREW; FAHEY, MARYANNE; FERGUSON, TIM; GILLIES, MAX; GRILLS, LUCKY; GYNGELL, KIM; HALL, KEN G.; HARMER, WENDY; HOGAN, PAUL; HUMPHRIES, BARRY; KENNEDY, GRAHAM; LAMOND, TONI; MCDONALD, GARRY; QUANTOCK, ROD; RAYE, CAROL; REILLY, GARY; SITCH, ROB; SORRENTI, VINCE; SZUBANSKI, MAGDA; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); BIG GIG, THE [TV] (AT, Ted Robinson, 1989); FRONTLINE [TV] (AT, 1994- ); MAVIS BRAMSTON SHOW [TV] (AT, 1964-1968); IN MELBOURNE TONIGHT [TV] (AT, 1957-?, 1997-); AUNTY JACK SHOW, THE [TV] (AU, 1972-73); COMEDY COMPANY, THE [TV] (AT, 1988-1990); D-GENERATION [TV] (AT, 1986-?); FAST FORWARD [TV] (AT, 1988-1989?)
Notes: Includes index; "An Allison Pressley book."
ISBN: 0733609384 : $24.95
LON: 14529909

Call No: 71(41) LAN
Author: Landy, Marcia, 1931
Place: Princeton, N.J.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: 553 p. : 24 ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; HISTORICAL FILMS. UK; WAR FILMS. UK; COMEDIES. UK; HORROR FILMS. UK; WOMEN, FILMS FOR. UK; MELODRAMA. UK; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. UK
Notes: Filmography: p. [503]-520; Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-533) and index
ISBN: 0691031762 (cl); 0691008361 (pb)
LON: 7770947

Author: Haldane, John
PhysDes: Article
Subject: Keaton, Buster; COMEDIANS; COMEDIES
Summary: Essay discusses Buster Keaton and the "gag", in response to an unfavourable review in "Film" of J. P. Lebel's book "Bustor Keaton.

Call No: 79CHA FIR
Author: Firth, Charles; Knight, Dominic; Morrow, Julian; Reucassel, Craig; Taylor, Chris
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne, Vic.
Publisher: Text Publishing
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: 103 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; COMEDY PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA; COMEDY PROGRAMMES; COMEDY TV. AUSTRALIA; COMEDY TV.AUSTRALIA; CHASER'S WAR ON EVERYTHING, THE [TV] (AT, Mark FitzGerald, Bradley Howard, Craig Melville, 2006); CHASER, THE [TV], (AT, 2001-)
Notes: Vols. for 2007- cataloged as a serial in LC
ISBN: 1877008060
Contents: -- mandatory joke about John Hopoate -- series of lame fat gags dressed up as satirical piece on Kim Beazley -- weak patch where nothing really happens -- really obvious cheap shot at some dead celebrity -- slightly boring piece about US-Sino relations -- predictable joke about Big Brother -- contrived reference to obscure government agency, to indicate we follow politics -- predictable joke about Big Brother (rerprise) --

Call No: 70(04) CIN
Author: Cook, Pam; Bernink, Mieke
Edition: 2nd ed
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: x, 406 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Subject: USA; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; STUDIO SYSTEM; STARS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; GERMANY; USSR; NEOREALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; UNITED KINGDOM; ART CINEMA; ASIAN COUNTRIES; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; THIRD CINEMA; THIRD WORLD; GENRES; WESTERNS; MELODRAMA; GANGSTER FILMS; FILM NOIR; HORROR FILMS; MUSICALS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; COMEDIES; ACTION FILMS; AUTHORSHIP; AUTEUR THEORY; STRUCTURALISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SARRIS, ANDREW
Notes: Previous ed.: 1985
ISBN: 0851707297; 0851707262 (pbk.) ª23.99; 0851707297; 0851707262 (pbk.)
LON: 14510520

Call No: 71(73) LEV
Author: Levy, Emanuel, 1947
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: New York University Press
PubDate: c1999
PhysDes: xiii, 601 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA; OUTSIDERS IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; FILM NOIR; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; COMEDIES. USA; BLACK CINEMA. US; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; FESTIVALS. PARK CITY. SUNDANCE; ARAKI, GREGG; NUNEZ, VICTOR; BROOKS, ALBERT; SMITH, KEVIN; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN; FERRARA, ABEL; WATERS, JOHN (US); HARTLEY, HAL; HAYNES, TODD; JARMUSCH, JIM; JOST, JON; LEE, SPIKE; LINKLATER, RICHARD; LYNCH, DAVID; MAMET, DAVID; NAIR, MIRA; SAYLES, JOHN; CASSAVETES, NICK; SODERBERGH, STEVEN; SOLONDZ, TODD; SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1989); BLOOD SIMPLE (US, Joel Coen, 1984); BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991); IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (US, Neil Labute, 1997); GAS FOOD LODGING (US, Allison Anders, 1992); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); RESERVOIR DOGS (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1992); MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973)
Summary: "Cinema of Outsiders is the first and only comprehensive chronicle of contemporary independent movies from the late 1970s up to the present. From the hip, audacious early works of maverick David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Spike Lee, to the contemporary Oscar-winning success of indie dynamos, such as the Coen brothers (Fargo), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Levy describes in a lucid and accessible manner the innovation and diversity of American indies in theme, sensibility, and style."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-571) and index
ISBN: 0814751237 (alk. paper)
LON: 20253533

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: COMEDIES
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Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: COMEDIES. UK

Call No: 732 MON
Author: Montgomery, John, 1916
Place: London
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
PubDate: 1954
PhysDes: 337 p., 17 p. of plates : ill., ports ; 1954
Subject: COMEDIES
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 299-300
LON: 2493107

Author: Coursodon, J. P.
PhysDes: Article
Subject: COMEDIES; AESTHETICS; Keaton, Buster; MARX BROTHERS; CHAPLIN, CHARLES
Summary: Essay examines the genesis and development of "the gag", from its vaudeville/music hall background, to its use on the screen by Buster Keaton and the like. Extract from "Keaton Et Cie"in the "Cinema Aujourd'hui" book series.

Author: Finney, Alan
PhysDes: Article Review
Subject: LEWIS, JERRY; NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE (US, Jerry Lewis, 1963); STAR SYSTEM; COMEDIANS; COMEDIES
Summary: Detailed analysis of Jerry Lewis's comic style as an actor and director, with sequence-by-sequence references to his film "The Patsy".

Author: Ogilive, George
PhysDes: Article
Subject: COMEDIES; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; FIELDS, W.C.; LEWIS, JERRY; Keaton, Buster; LAUREL, STAN; HARDY, OLIVER; CHAPLIN, CHARLES
Summary: Transcript of a talk given by George Ogilive of the Melbourne Theatre Company, where he discusses basic aspects of comedy including rhythm and timing, as well as criticising the work of Jerry Lewis in his films "Three on a Couch" and "The Patsy.

Call No: 630 TRA
Author: Trahair, Lisa
Source: US
Place: Albany
Publisher: State University of New York Press
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: SUNY series, insinuations--philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
Subject: COMEDIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; BATAILLE, GEORGES; FREUD, SIGMUND
Summary: "The Comedy of Philosophy brings modern debates in continental philosophy to bear on the historical study of early cinematic comedy. Through the films of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, Lisa Trahair investigates early cinema's exploration of sense and nonsense by utilizing the contributions to the philosophy of comedy made by Freud and Bataille and by examining significant poststructuralist interpretations of their work. Trahair explores the shift from the excessive physical slapstick of the Mack Sennett era to the so-called structural comedy of the 1920s, and also offers a new perspective on the importance of psychoanalysis for the study of film by focusing on the implications of Freud's theory of the unconscious for our understanding of visuality."--BOOK JACKET.
ISBN: 9780791472477
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010
Contents: 1. The Philosophy of Laughter: Bataille, Hegel, and Derrida -- 2. Restricted and General Economy: Narrative, Gag, and Slapstick in One Week -- 3. The Machine of Comedy: Gunning, Deleuze, and Buster Keaton -- 4. Fool's Gold: Metamorphoses in Sherlock Jr. -- 5. Jokes and Their Relation to ... -- 6. The Comic: Degradation and Refinement in 1920's Cinematic Slapstick -- 7. From Words to Images (Gagging) -- 8. Figural Vision: Freud, Lyotard, and City Lights -- 9. Preposterous Figurality: Comic Cinema and Bad Metaphor.

Call No: 732 MAS
Author: Mast, Gerald, 1940
Place: London
Publisher: New English Library
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: xi, 353p, [40]p of plates : ill. ; 22cm
Subject: COMEDIES
Notes: Cinema films: Comedies, to 1971 (BNB/PRECIS); Originally published: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1973; Bibliography: p.328-329. - Includes index
ISBN: 0450021408 : ª3.25
LON: 3540351 3540351

Author: Sharples, Bob
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LEWIS, JERRY; COMEDIANS; COMEDIES
Summary: Alan Finney describes his experience of meeting Jerry Lewis and discusses Lewis' role as 'the only comic creative artist to emerge since 1950'.

Call No: 71(46) JOR
Author: Jordan, Barry, 1950; Morgan-Tamosunas, Rikki
Place: Manchester
Publisher: Manchester University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: vi, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: SPAIN; COMEDIES. SPAIN; THRILLERS. SPAIN; FANTASTIC FILMS. SPAIN; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS. SPAIN; HORROR FILMS. SPAIN; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. SPAIN; SPAIN: CATALONIA; SPAIN: BASQUE COUNTRY; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. SPAIN; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO; BIGAS LUNA; GARCI, JOSE LUIS; MEDEM, JULIO; MIRO, PILAR; SAURA, CARLOS; TRUEBA, FERNANDO; COLMENA, LA (SP, Mario Camus, 1982); NADIE HABLARA DE NOSOTRAS CUANDO HAYAMOS MUERTO (SP, Agustin Diaz Yanes, 1995)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 071904412X (hbk.); 0719044138 (pbk.)
LON: abn98241412; 14031781

Call No: 732(73) DUR
Author: Durgnat, Raymond
Place: London
Publisher: Faber
PubDate: 1969
PhysDes: 3-280 p. 16 plates, illus. 23 cm
Subject: COMEDIES. USA
Notes: Bibliography: p. 249-254
ISBN: 0571088392
LON: 561293

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; HALAL LOVE (GG/LE, Assad Fouladkar, 2016)
Author: McDonald, John
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA. ARAB; COMEDIES. MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES; COMEDIES. USA; HALAL LOVE (GG/LE, Assad Fouladkar, 2016)
Summary: Positive review of the comedy HALAL LOVE, and comments on watching the film at the Arab Film Festival amongst a largely Arab audience. The author looks at how interesting it is to think about a culture as represented in comedies and despairs that Western audiences favour popular comedies that are gross out fests (names DIRTY GRANDPA) compared to more sophisticated non Western comedies as represented by HALAL LOVE

Call No: 732.5(46) EGE
Author: Egea, Juan F.
Source: US
Place: Madison
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: xii, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject: COMEDIES. SPAIN; BERLANGA, LUIS G.; FERRERI, MARCO; BUNUEL, LUIS; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO
Summary: In Dark Laughter, Juan F. Egea provides a remarkable in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humor. Egea begins his analysis with General Fanco's dictatorship in the 1960s- aregime that openedthe country to new economic forces while maintaining its repressivr nature- exploring key works by Luis Garcia Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Fernando Fernan-Gomez, and Luis Bunuel. Dark Laughterthen moves to the first films of Pedro Almodovar in the early 1980s during the spanish political transition to democracy before examinig Alex de la Iglesia and the new dark comedies of the 1990s...At its core Dark Laughter is a substantial inquiry into the epistemology of comedy, the intricacies of visual modernity, and the relationship between cinema and a wider framework of representational practices. -- [Extract taken from the back of the book]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-178) and index
ISBN: 9780299295448
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Familiar Questions -- 2.Movement and Paralysis, Dissidence and Identity: Ferreri's El cochecito -- 3.Complicity Dissected: Berlanga's El verdugo -- 4.Don Jaime's Laughter: Humor and Perversion in Viridiana -- 5.Modernizing Desire: Fernan-Gomez's El extrano viaje -- 6.Almodovar Interlude: Transitional Laughter -- 7.Back with a Vengeance: Laughing Darkly in Post-1992 Spain.

Call No: 79DIM HIB:
Author: Hibberd, Jack
Source: AT
Place: Harmondsworth, England
Publisher: Penguin Books
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: 55 p. ; 18cm
Series: Penguin Australian drama
Subject: DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; HIBBERD, JACK; DIMBOOLA (AT, John Duigan, 1979)
Summary: The script of the play Dimboola.
Notes: Issued with Powers, J The last of the knucklemen [Hamondsworth, Eng.1974]
ISBN: 0140700420
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 732 HAL
Author: Halliwell, Leslie
Place: London
Publisher: Grafton
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xii, 320 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: COMEDIANS; COMEDIES
ISBN: 0246128356
LON: 5497120

Call No: 401(73) TOL
Author: Toll, Robert C
Place: Oxford [Oxfordshire] New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: xii, 284 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: MEDIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF TV; WESTERNS; COMEDIES; MUSICALS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CRIME FILMS; CRIME ON TV
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 245-253
ISBN: 0195032322 (pbk.); 0195030818 (hard)
LON: 2111496

Call No: 81 WAI BAN
Author: Bannister, Matthew
Edition: 2021
Place: Detroit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 2021
PhysDes: 304 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Subject: WAITITI, TAIKA; NEW ZEALAND; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; COMEDIES
Summary: Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi’s feature films and places his other works and performances—short films, TV series, advertisements, music videos, and media appearances—in the fabric of popular culture. The book’s thesis is that Waititi’s playful comic style draws on an ironic reading of NZ identity as Antipodean camp, a style which reflects NZ’s historic status as colonial underdog. The first four chapters of Eye of the Taika explore Waititi’s early life and career, the history of New Zealand and its film industry, the history of local comedy and its undervaluation in favor of more "serious" art, and ethnicity in New Zealand comedy. Bannister then focuses on Waititi’s films, beginning with Eagle vs Shark (2007) and its place in "New Geek Cinema," despite being an outsider even in this realm. Bannister uses Boy (2010) to address the "comedian comedy," arguing that Waititi is a comedic entertainer before being a director. With What We Do in The Shadows (2014), Bannister explores Waititi’s use of the vampire as the archetypal immigrant struggling to fit into mainstream society, under the guise of a mockumentary. Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), Bannister argues, is a family-friendly, rural-based romp that plays on and ironizes aspects of Aotearoa/New Zealand identity. Thor: Ragnarok (2017) launched Waititi into the Hollywood realm, while introducing a Polynesian perspective on Western superhero ideology. Finally, Bannister addresses Jojo Rabbit (2019) as an "anti-hate satire" and questions its quality versus its topicality and timeliness in Hollywood. By viewing Waititi’s career and filmography as a series of pranks, Bannister identifies Waititi’s playful balance between dominant art worlds and emergent postcolonial innovations, New Zealand national identity and indigenous Aotearoan (and Jewish) roots, and masculinity and androgyny. Eye of the Taika is intended for film scholars and film lovers alike. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780814345337

Call No: 227 FAL
Author: Stern, Lesley; Kouvaros, George
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Power Publications
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 314 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: ACTING; COMEDIES; BENJAMIN, WALTER; GARLAND, JUDY; STREISAND, BARBRA; CASSAVETES, JOHN; HARTLEY, HAL; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; Keaton, Buster; FUNNY GIRL (US, William Wyler, 1968); LOVE STREAMS (US, John Cassavetes, 1984); WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974); AIQING WANSUI (TZ, Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994); SHERLOCK, JR. (US, Buster Keaton, 1924); KING OF COMEDY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 1864870257 : $14.95
LON: 20003607

Author: Finney, Alan
PhysDes: Article Credits
Subject: COMEDIES; COMEDIANS; LEWIS, JERRY; Keaton, Buster
Summary: Compilation essay comprising of abstracts and quotations from various film journals and critics, in order to discuss the subject of comedy. The focus of the article is the work of Jerry Lewis, whose career this author has championed in this publication.

Call No: 62(04) KIR
Author: Kirschner, Allen Kirschner, Linda
Place: New York
Publisher: The Odyssey Press
PubDate: c1971
PhysDes: 315 pages : 23 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; HISTORY OF CINEMA; AUDIENCES; RATING FOR FILMS. USA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; COMEDIES; DIRECTION; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967)
Summary: A collection of essays on the history, art and effects of film separated into 3 sections (form and technique, audience and effects, and critics and criticism) with the final section focussing largely on the film The Graduate
Notes: Bibliography: p. 313-315.
Contents: Movies: the reel world / Marshall McLuhan -- Comedy's greatest era / James Agee -- from King of comedy / Mack Sennett -- The movies 100 years from now / David Wark Griffith -- The modern photoplay / Irving Thalberg -- The movies / H.L. Mencken -- Film and reality / Rudolf Arnheim -- Direction / Alfred Hitchcock -- Reflections on the film actor / Michelangelo Antonioni -- What is "film making"? / Ingmar Bergman -- The reality of New Cinema / Ken Kelman -- Where are we, the underground? / Jonas Mekas -- What makes a good screen story? / Mervyn LeRoy -- The writer and the film / Dudley Nichols -- The movies are now high art / Richard Schickel -- The movies are better than the theater / Walter Kerr -- The film generation / Stanley Kauffmann -- Engaging the eye-minded / Arthur Knight -- Movies: morals, violence, sex: anything goes / Judith Christ -- Film as environment / Anthony Schillaci -- Loverboy of the bourgeoisie / Tom Wolfe -- Freedom of speech in a mass medium / Richard S. Randall -- Rating code / Motion Picture Association of America -- Movies, the desperate art / Pauline Kael -- Should American films be subsidized? / William Fadiman -- The movie industry and the film culture / Ernest Callenbach -- On reviewing, I: Turnstiles / Renata Adler -- Is film criticism only propaganda? / Parker Tyler -- The graduate: four reviews. The graduate makes out / Hollis Alpert ; Tales out of school / Bosley Crowther ; Summa cum laude / Joseph Morgenstern ; The graduate / Stephen Farber and Estelle Changas -- Mike Nichols talks about The graduate / Joseph Gelmis -- The future of film / Members of the National Society of Film Critics: Hollis Alpert ; Brendan Gill ; Philip T. Hartung ; Stanley Kauffmann ; Arthur Knight ; Joseph Morgenstern ; Andrew Sarris ; Richard Schickel ; Wilfrid Sheed ; John Simon

Call No: 62 DEN
Author: DeNitto, Dennis,
Place: New York
Publisher: Harper & Row
PubDate: c1985
PhysDes: xv, 544 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: THEORY; CRITICISM; EDITING; HISTORY OF CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; MONTAGE; NEOREALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; COMEDIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; PROPAGANDA FILMS; WESTERNS; MUSICALS; VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967); TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967); BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919); OKTIABR [OCTOBER] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1928); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949); [FOUR HUNDRED] 400 BLOWS, THE [; MAN OF ARAN (UK, Robert Flaherty, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953); WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969); TOP HAT (US, Mark Sandrich, 1935); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961); SOMMARNATTENS LEENDE (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1956)
Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 493-503
ISBN: 0060416297 (pbk.)
Order Received: 2000
Order Type: Donation
LON: 3664711

Call No: 64GEN FIL
Author: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: GENRES; WESTERNS; GANGSTER FILMS; FILM NOIR; DISASTER FILMS; EPIC FILMS; HORROR FILMS; MELODRAMA; COMEDIES; TRANSVESTISM; WOMEN IN FILMS; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; MUSICALS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; CANADA; AUTEUR THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEMIOLOGY; STRUCTURALISM; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; MICHEAUX, OSCAR; CRONENBERG, DAVID; FORD, JOHN; PENN, ARTHUR; SIRK, DOUGLAS; CAVELL, STANLEY; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; FRYE, NORTHROP; MINNELLI, VINCENTE; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949); YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951); [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957); VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986); DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and index
ISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11563059

Call No: 71(94) MOR
Author: Moran, Albert; Vieth, Errol
Source: AT
Place: Port Melbourne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xii, 219 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: GENRES. AUSTRALIA; ADVENTURE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ART CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; CRIME FILMS. AUSTRALIA; DETECTIVE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MUSICALS. AUSTRALIA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; THRILLERS. AUSTRALIA; YOUNG PEOPLE. AUSTRALIA, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Analyses Australian film from the 1970's in terms of genre.
ISBN: 0816649227

Call No: 62 FIL
Author: Mast, Gerald, 1940; Cohen, Marshall
Edition: 3rd ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: xxi, 852 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: SEMIOLOGY; PRODUCTION; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; ADAPTATIONS; COMEDIES; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; WESTERNS; AUTEUR THEORY; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; GARBO, GRETA; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 846-852
ISBN: 0195035739 (pbk.)
LON: 84027243; 3860012
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Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 003 FOO
Author: Davy, Charles
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Lovat Dickson Ltd; Readers' Union
PubDate: 1938
PhysDes: 334 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: PRODUCTION; INDUSTRY, FILM; DIRECTION; ACTING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; SCRIPTWRITING; COMEDIES; CARTOONS; COSTUMES; COSTUME DESIGNING; SET DESIGNING; SETS; ART DIRECTION; MUSIC IN FILMS; COLOUR; REALISM IN FILMS; UNITED KINGDOM; USA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCES; CRITICISM; CENSORSHIP; SOCIETIES, FILM
Notes: Includes contributor biographies and index
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: Includes essays by Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Basil Wright, Graham Greene, Alberto Cavalcanti, John Betjeman, Maurice Jaubert, Paul Nash, John Grierson, Alexander Korda, Basil Dean, Maurice Kann, Elizabeth Bowen, Sidney L. Bernstein, Alistair Cooke, Forsyth Hardy, Charles Davy

Call No: 81CAP MCB
Author: McBride, Joseph
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: 768 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; AUTHORSHIP; COLUMBIA PICTURES; DIRECTORS; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; CAPRA, FRANK; COHN, HARRY; RISKIN, ROBERT; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); LADY FOR A DAY (US, Frank Capra, 1933); LOST HORIZON (US, Frank Capra, 1937); MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941); [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44); YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938)
Summary: "FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS is the first major biography of one of the greatest directors in Hollywood history, the man behind such classic films as IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE [...] FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS is the result of more than seven years of work. It is drawn from extensive archival research and interviews with 175 people who knew or worked with Capra, as well as many hours of interviews with Capra himself. In this biography, Joseph McBride gives us the definitive portrait of one of our greatest filmmakers." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Filmography: p. [117]-731; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0671797883 (pbk.); 0671734946 : $27.50
LON: abn92038576; 8711584

Call No: 64GEN NEA
Author: Neale, Steve
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: viii, 336 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: GENRES; FILM NOIR; MELODRAMA; ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FORMALISM; FRONTIERS IN FILMS; GANGSTER FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; MUSICALS; USA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; THRILLERS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ALTMAN, ROBERT; BASINGER, JEANINE; DOHERTY, THOMAS; SCHATZ, THOMAS
Summary: "Steve Neale provides a comprehensive introduction to genre and Hollywood cinema. He discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, an the key genres which theorists and critics have tended to write about - from musicals to horror films, from action-adventure to the western. He also offers detailed revisionist accounts of melodrama and 'film noir', and puts forward new arguments about the place and importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema." -- Taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliography and index
ISBN: 0415026059 : No price; 0415026067(pbk.)
LON: 21413450

Call No: 71(430) GER
Author: Bergfelder, Tim; Carter, Erica; Gokturk, Deniz
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: bfi Publishing
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: xi 291p. : illus. : 25cm
Subject: EXHIBITION; UFA; GOVERNMENT AID. GERMANY; GOVERNMENT CONTROL; GERMANY; HISTORY OF CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HEIMAT FILMS; COMEDIES. GERMANY; CRIME FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; DIETRICH, MARLENE; LANG, FRITZ; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MUELLER-STAHL, ARMIN; OTTINGER, ULRIKE; RUHMANN, HEINZ; NIBELUNGEN, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1922-24)
Notes: Includes bibliography and resources and index
ISBN: 085170946X

Author: Naughton, Leonie
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s)
Subject: COMEDIES. GERMANY; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT AID. GERMANY; BEWEGTE MANN, DER (GG, Sonke Wortmann, 1994)
Summary: Explores the late 1990's trend of German audiences flocking to watch locally produced films, as opposed to movies from the United States.

Call No: 732 ROB
Author: Robinson, David, 1930
Place: London
Publisher: Studio Vista
PubDate: 1969
PhysDes: 160 p. illus., ports. 19 cm
Subject: COMEDIES
ISBN: 0289796431
LON: 720171

Call No: 71(73) SEN; FOLIO
Author: Sennett, Ted
Place: New York
Publisher: Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 289 p. : ill. ; 36 cm
Subject: USA; COMEDIES. USA; MUSICALS. USA; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA; WESTERNS; WAR FILMS. USA; HORROR FILMS. USA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; CRIME FILMS. USA; ADAPTATIONS. USA; DETECTIVE FILMS. USA
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p
ISBN: 0810980754
LON: 4492757
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 732 HOL
Author: Glitre, Kathrina
Source: UK
Place: Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
Publisher: Manchester University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 199 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; ROMANTIC FILMS; LOY, MYRNA; POWELL, WILLIAM; HEPBURN, AUDREY; TRACY, SPENCER; DAY, DORIS; HUDSON, ROCK
Notes: Includes index and bibliographical references ([p.] 188-195). Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-195) and index
ISBN: 0719070791
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009
Contents: 1. Hollywood romantic comedy -- Genre, cycles and critical conditions -- 2. Marriage -- The same but different: marriage, remarriage, and screwball comedy -- Making marriage fun: Myrna Loy and William Powell -- 3. Equality -- A little difference: equality and the career woman comedy -- Economy and excess: Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy -- 4. Desire -- Possess me: consuming desires in the sex comedy -- There must be a boy! Doris Day and Rock Hudson

Call No: 732(5-011) HUM
Author: Revi, Gayatri (ed.); Rahman, Najat (ed.)
Source: US
Place: Detroit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: 282 pages ; 23 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media
Subject: AFGHANISTAN; ARAB COUNTRIES; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; BOLLYWOOD; CENSORSHIP; COMEDIES. MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. US; EGYPT; HUMOUR IN FILMS; INDIA; IRAN; IRAQ; ISRAEL; IRONY IN FILMS; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; PALESTINE; POLITICAL FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; SATIRE IN FILMS; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; PAKISTAN; CHAHINE, YOUSSEF; DHOUIB, MONCEF; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS; ZARHIN, SHEMI; AMERIKALI (TU, Serif Gören, 1993); BAD MA RA KHAHAD BORD (IR/FR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1999); DIVINE INTERVENTION (FR/MR/G/PA, Elia Suleiman, 2002); ALEXANDRIA... WHY? [ISKANDARIYA....LEEH?] (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978); ALEXANDRIA... WHY? [ISKANDARIYA....LEEH?] (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978); TELE ARRIVE, LA (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006); TERE BIN LADEN (II, Abhishek Sharma, 2010); TV IS COMING, THE (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006)
Summary: "While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor—often satirical—has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent—including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and diasporic cinema. Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema explores what humor theorists have identified as an “emancipatory,” “liberatory,” even “revolutionary” function to humor. Among the questions contributors ask are: How does Middle Eastern cinema and media highlight the stakes and place of humor in art and in life? What is its relation to the political? Can humor in cinematic art be emancipatory? What are its limits for its intervention or transformation? Contributors examine the region’s masterful auteurs, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Youssef Chahine, and Elia Suleiman and cover a range of cinematic settings, including Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. They also trace diasporic issues in the distinctive cinema of India and Pakistan. This insightful collection will introduce readers to a variety of contemporary Middle Eastern cinema that has attracted little critical notice. Scholars of cinema and media studies as well as Middle Eastern cultural history will appreciate this introduction to a complex and fascinating cinema." -- GOOGLE BOOKS
Notes: Contains bibliography and filmography -- contains index -- contains list of contributors
ISBN: 9780814339374
Contents: Introduction / Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman -- Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman -- Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia: allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's TV Is Coming / Robert Lang -- Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehran Modiri: space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar -- Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton -- The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman -- Comedic meditations: war and genre in The Outcasts / Somy Kim -- Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us / Gayatri Devi -- America the oppressively funny: humor and anti-americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel -- Laughter across borders: the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta

PhysDes: Article
Subject: LEWIS, JERRY; COMEDIANS; COMEDIES
Summary: Compilation of interviews with Jerry Lewis, discussing his career, influences and the nature of comedy. Interviews taken from publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, and the book "The Great Comedians Talk About Comedy".

Call No: 732(73) LAU
Author: Sikov, Ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xvii, 282 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: COMEDIES. USA; TRANSVESTISM; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. USA; LEWIS, JERRY; MARTIN, DEAN; MONROE, MARILYN; SWANSON, GLORIA; MANSFIELD, JAYNE; RUSSELL, JANE; HAWKS, HOWARD; WILDER, BILLY; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; TASHLIN, FRANK; ARTISTS AND MODELS (US, Frank Tashlin, 1955); GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, THE (US, Frank Tashlin, 1956); GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953); MONKEY BUSINESS (US, Howard Hawks, 1952); SEVEN YEAR ITCH, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1955); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); STALAG 17 (US, Billy Wilder, 1952); SUNSET BOULEVARD (US, Billy Wilder, 1950); TROUBLE WITH HARRY, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1955); WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? (US, Frank Tashlin, 1957)
Summary: With the likes of Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and Frank Tashlin revelling in "monkeys, babies, beautiful blondes, money, and cruelty" in their signature films of the 1950s, this seemingly conformist period turns out to be one of the most dynamic and original eras in Hollywood history. What distinguishes these directors is their candid and amusing exploration of cultural anxieties in carnival form. Quirky yet complex films such as Monkey Business, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Sunset Boulevard, The Trouble with Harry, and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? released and expressed the sexual repression and frustration we commonly associate with the decade
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-267) and index
ISBN: 0231079826 (alk. paper)
LON: 93048900; 10679624

Call No: 732 PAL
Author: Palmer, Jerry
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; COMEDY PROGRAMMES; HUMOUR IN FILMS; HUMOUR ON TV; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; FAWLTY TOWERS [TV] (UK, 1975-1979)
Summary: "What is comedy? We all know what entertains us and makes us laugh, but rarely stop to ask why. To answer this question, Jerry Palmer looks at examples culled from a variety of comic forms, ranging from Bob Hope to Laurel and Hardy slapstick to Dr Strangelove to Fawlty Towers, and examines how their humour works."--BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 085170204X; 0851702058 (pbk.)
LON: 5413120
Donation: Donated by Mike Counihan

Call No: 732 SEN
Author: Sennett, Ted
Place: New Rochelle, N.Y.
Publisher: Arlington House
PubDate: [1973]
PhysDes: 368 p. illus. 24 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; STURGES, PRESTON; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938); HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (US, Preston Sturges, 1943)
Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-356
ISBN: 0870001965
LON: 506387

Call No: 70 ROT
Author: Rotha, Paul
Place: London New York
Publisher: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, inc
PubDate: [1936]
PhysDes: ix,142 p. : illus. ; 30 cm
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FANTASTIC FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; MELODRAMA; MUSICALS; ROMANIES IN FILM; SATIRE IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); CHYORTOVO KOLESO (UR, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1926); [FOUR] HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); LOST PATROL, THE (US, John Ford, 1934); OUR HOSPITALITY (US, Buster Keaton & John Blystone, 1923); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); QUICK MILLIONS (US, Rowland Brown, 1931); SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); SPEEDY (US, Ted Wilde, 1928); TABU (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1931); TESTAMENT DES DOKTOR MABUSE, DAS (G, Fritz Lang, 1933); WINGS (US, William Wellman, 1927); WOMAN OF PARIS, A (US, Charles Chaplin, 1923)
Notes: Title on two leaves; "Pictorial survey ... some 600 stills ... from all parts of the world."--p. [iv]
LON: 1376838

Call No: 71(73) GRI; FOLIO
Author: Griffith, Richard, 1912; Mayer, Arthur, b. 1886
Place: London
Publisher: Spring Books
PubDate: c1957
PhysDes: 442 p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm
Subject: USA; STARS; COMEDIES. USA; WESTERNS; WAR FILMS. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; DEMILLE, CECIL B.
Notes: Includes index
LON: 3982643

Call No: 71(73) GRI; FOLIO
Author: Griffith, Richard; Mayer, Arthur; Bowser, Eileen
Place: London
Publisher: Columbus Books
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: 560 p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm
Subject: USA; STARS; COMEDIES. USA; WESTERNS; WAR FILMS. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; DEMILLE, CECIL B.
Notes: Includes index
LON: 3982643
Donation: the family of Wayne Levy
ID2: 358

Call No: 732 BYR
Author: Byron, Stuart; Weis Elisabeth
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Penguin Books
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: xi, 308 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; COMEDIANS IN FILMS; COMEDIANS
Summary: The book provides a review of comedy in film from silent movies to the present day This is done by 25 critics. [Taken from the back of the book.]
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0140045783

Call No: 71(94) NEW
Author: Murray, Scott, 1951- joint ed; Beilby, Peter. joint ed
Place: West Melbourne, Vic.
Publisher: Nelson
PubDate: 1980
PhysDes: 207p. : ill.(part col.) ; 28 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ACTION FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Australian cinema films, 1970-1979 (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0417831); On cover: foreword by Phillip Adams: introduction by Ken G. Hall; Produced by Cinema Papers, North Melbourne, Vic; Index; Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0170055728 : $14.95 Aust
LON: abn95019370; 11368160

Call No: 71(519-13) NEW
Author: Stringer, Julian and Shin, Chi-Yun
Source: UK
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: x, 234p. ; b+w ill. : 24cm.
Subject: KOREA; INDUSTRY, FILM. KOREA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; FESTIVALS; GENRES; HORROR FILMS; COMEDIES; MELODRAMA; ROMANTIC FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; CHUNHYANG (KO, Im Kwon-Taek, 2000); TEL MI SSEOMTING (KO, Chang Youn-Hyun, 2000); BOKSEUNEUN NAEUI GEOS (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2002); CHINGU (KO, Kwak Kyeong-Taek, 2001); GOYANGIREUL BUTAKHAE (KO, Jeong Jae-eun, 2001); JUYUSO SEUBGYUKSAGEUN (KO, Kim Sang-Jin, 1999); SARA-INNUN RYONGHONGDUL (KO, Kim Chun-song, 2001); YURYEONG (KO, Min Biong Hun, 1999); BAKHA SATANG (KO, Lee Chang-Dong, 1999); SAENG-HWAL-EUI BAL-GYUN (KO, Hong Sangsoo, 2002); YEOGO GOEDAM II (KO, Kim Tae-Yong, 2000); SUN AE BO (KO, E J-Young, 2001)
Summary: "New Korean Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation, and reception of this vibrant cinema, which has begun to flourish again in the past decade, following the lifting of repressive government policies. In addition to providing a cultural, historical, and social context for understanding this burgeoning cinema, the book considers the political economy of South Korea's film industry, strategies of domestic and international distribution and marketing, and the consumption of Korean films throughout the world. The volume also includes a glossary of key terms and a bibliography of works on Korean cinema."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, glossary, websites and index
ISBN: 9780814740309
Language: English

Call No: 751.1(73) OXF
Author: Knapp, Raymond; Morris, Mitchell; Wolf, Stacy
Edition: paperback
Source: US/UK
Place: Oxford ; New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 2011, 2013
PhysDes: x, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject: AUDIENCES; AUTHORSHIP; BLACK CINEMA. US; BOX OFFICE. USA; COMEDIES; DANCE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC IN FILMS; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; MUSICALS. USA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; ANDREWS, JULIE; ASTAIRE, FRED; BERLIN, IRVING; FOSSE, BOB; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II; KERN, JEROME; MERMAN, ETHEL; ROBBINS, JEROME; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN; BLACK CROOK, THE (US, Robert G. Vignola, 1916); CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972); CHICAGO (US, Rob Marshall, 2002); CHORUS LINE (US, Richard Attenborough, 1985); FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (US, Norman Jewison, 1971); GUYS AND DOLLS (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955); GYPSY (US, Emile Ardolino, 1994); MY FAIR LADY (US, George Cukor, 1964); OKLAHOMA! (US, Fred Zinneman, 1955); PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967); SHOWBOAT (US, George Sidney, 1951); SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965); WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961)
Summary: "The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today." - GOOGLE BOOKS
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 9780199987368
Contents: Part I: Historiography. Narratives and values / Mitchell Morris -- Texts and authors / Jim Lovensheimer -- Musical styles and song conventions / Paul R. Laird -- Evolution of dance in the golden age of the American "book musical" / Liza Gennaro; Part II: Transformations. Minstrelsy and theatrical miscegenation / Thomas L. Riis -- Tin Pan Alley songs on stage and screen before World War II / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- Integration / Geoffrey Block -- After the "golden age" / Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman; Part III: Media. Theater / Tamsen Wolff -- The filmed musical / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- The television musical / Robynn J. Stilwell -- The animated film musical / Susan Smith -- The evolution of the original cast album / George Reddick; Part IV: Identities. Race, ethnicity, performance / Todd Decker -- Gender and sexuality / Stacy Wolf -- The politics of region and nation in American musicals / Chase A. Bringardner -- Class and culture / David Savran; Part V: Performance. The institutional structure of the American musical theater / David Sanjek -- Orchestration and arrangement : creating the Broadway sound / Dominic Symonds -- Musical theater directors / Barbara Wallace Grossman -- Sets, costumes, lights, and spectacle / Virginia Anderson -- Acting / John M. Clum -- Singing / Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp -- Dance and choreography / Zachary A. Dorsey; Part VI: Audiences. Box office / Steven Adler -- Audiences and critics / Michelle Dvoskin -- Stars and fans / Holley Replogle-Wong -- Knowing your audience / Jennifer Chapman -- Performance, authenticity, and the reflexive idealism of the American musical / Raymond Knapp

Call No: 403 MAR
Author: Martin, Adrian
Place: Ringwood, Vic.
Publisher: McPhee Gribble
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xii, 212 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; THRILLERS; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; COMEDIES; BLOCKBUSTERS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; ENDINGS OF FILMS; CAPRA, FRANK; EDWARDS, BLAKE; SCORSESE, MARTIN; THIRTYSOMETHING [TV] (US, 1987-91); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); BENNY HILL SHOW, THE [TV] (UK, 1979); DUNLEAVY [TV] (US, 1992?); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946)
Notes: Includes index; CIP confirmed; Subtitle on cover: The dreams and desires at the heart of our popular culture; Bibliography: p. 199-201
ISBN: 0869142917 (pbk.)
LON: 10669030

Call No: 732 CAV
Author: Cavell, Stanley, 1926
Place: Cambridge, Mass.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Harvard film studies
Subject: COMEDIES
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0674739051
LON: 2009149

Call No: 732(73) HAR
Author: Harvey, James, 1929
Edition: 1st ed
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Knopf
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTORS; COMEDIES; DIRECTORS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; ROMANTIC COMEDY; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; STAR SYSTEM; ARTHUR, JEAN; ASTAIRE, FRED; BRACKEN, EDDIE; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE; COOPER, GARY; DUNNE, IRENE; GABLE, CLARK; GRANT, CARY; HARLOW, JEAN; HAWKS, HOWARD; LA CAVA, GREGORY; Lombard, Carole; LOY, MYRNA; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MCCAREY, LEO; MCCREA, JOEL; POWELL, WILLIAM; ROGERS, GINGER; Stanwyck, Barbara; STEVENS, GEORGE; STURGES, PRESTON; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); [FIFTH] 5TH AVENUE GIRL (US, Gregory La Cava, 1939); HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); NINOTCHKA (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939); PALM BEACH STORY, THE (US, Preston Sturgess, 1942); SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932); UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (US, Preston Sturges, 1948)
Summary: "Reading ROMANTIC COMEDY is like going to the movies. It recreates for us movies we've come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, TWENTIETH CENTURE, THE THIN MAN, and THE GAY DIVORCEE - heralded the arrival of the golden age of Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Over the next ten years, some of Hollywood's brightest directors and stars turned out some of America's most enduring and beloved films. The screwballs - slangy, irreverent, playful, skeptical, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love" - constitute a genre of American film unique in its combination of the innocent and the worldly, of swank and slapstick. Now critic James Harvey - writing with brilliance and humor - gives us the first truly comprehensive book about these movies and the people who made them." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0394503392
LON: 5273661

Call No: 71(94) DER v.2
Author: Dermody, Susan; Jacka, Elizabeth
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Currency Press
PubDate: 1987-<1988
PhysDes: v. <1-2 > ; 21 cm
Series: Australian screen series
Subject: BUDDY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; THEORY. AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; POLITICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU (AT, Carl Schultz, 1983); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); MY BROTHER JACK (AT, Gil Brealey, 1965); ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); FAR EAST (AT, John Duigan, 1982); F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977); HEATWAVE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1981); KILLING OF ANGEL STREET, THE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1981); MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981); NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978); PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979); PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975); TOWN LIKE ALICE, A (AT, David Stevens, 1980); WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982)
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index
ISBN: 0861911876 (v. 2); 0868191876 (v. 2)
LON: 5369777

Author: Finney, Alan
PhysDes: Article Review
Subject: COMEDIES; SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN WIFE, THE (US, George Axelrod, 1968); APARTMENT, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1960); HAWKS, HOWARD; HUDSON, ROCK
Summary: Essay discusses the film products of the Hollywood industry, focusing on the "sex comedy" genre, and analysing it in terms of its setting, characterisation and motivations, and also its cinematic devices used to convey meaning.

Call No: 732 KER; FOLIO
Author: Kerr, Walter, 1913
Edition: 1st ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Knopf
PubDate: 1975
PhysDes: 372 p. : ill. ; 31 cm
Subject: COMEDIANS; COMEDIES; Keaton, Buster; HARDY, OLIVER; LAUREL, STAN; GRIFFITH, RAYMOND; LANGDON, HARRY; SENNETT, MACK; LLOYD, HAROLD; CHAPLIN, CHARLES
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0394469070 : $17.95
LON: 384380

Author: Willeford, William
PhysDes: Article
Subject: COMEDIES
Summary: Abstract and notes taken from Willeford's book "The Fool and the Sceptre", 'in his examination of the fool, folly, and the mimetic process'.

Call No: 451-025 ROW
Author: Rowe, Kathleen, 1947
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin, Tex.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Texas film studies series
Subject: COMEDIENNES; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; COMEDIES; TRANSVESTISM; MELODRAMA; SITUATION COMEDY; CARNIVAL AND THE CINEMA; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; ARNOLD, ROSEANNE; MISS PIGGY; WEST, MAE; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); BALL OF FIRE (US, Howard Hawks, 1942); BORN YESTERDAY (US, George Cukor, 1950); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); MOONSTRUCK (US, Norman Jewison, 1987); PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990); SHE DONE HIM WRONG (US, Lowell Sherman, 1933); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); SYLVIA SCARLETT (US, George Cukor, 1935); GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953)
Summary: Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman - often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top" - uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women - the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas; This feminist study of comedy in film and television offers exciting new opportunities for understanding these media. Written with verve and humor, it will be important reading for a wide popular and scholarly audience in mass communications, gender studies, and popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index
ISBN: 0292790724; 0292770693 (pbk.)
LON: 94013656; 10900401

Call No: 632.43 VOG
Author: Vogler, Christopher, 1949
Edition: 2nd rev. ed
Place: London
Publisher: Pan
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: xxiii,326 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: SCRIPTWRITING; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; BEVERLY HILLS COP (US, Martin Brest, 1984); FULL MONTY, THE (UK/US, Robert Cattaneo, 1997); LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994); OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, AN (US, Taylor Hackford, 1982); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); ROMANCING THE STONE (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1984); COMEDIES; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977); TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997); WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939)
Notes: This ed. originally published: London: Boxtree, 1996; Bibliography: p302. - Includes index
ISBN: 0330375911(pbk.) : ª14.99
LON: 14527333