Class, language, and American film comedy / Christopher Beach.

By:

Beach, Christopher, 1959-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 241 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511020422
9780511020421
0511029187
9780511029189
9780521807494
0521807492
9780511606342
0511606346
9780511044472
051104447X
0511157878
9780511157875
9786610419319
6610419310
1107124565
9781107124561
0511323603
9780511323607
1280419318
9781280419317
0511176996
9780511176999

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Class, language, and American film comedy.DDC classification:

791.43/617 21

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.C55 B43 2002eb

Other classification:

24.34

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Contents:

1. A troubled paradise : utopia and transgression in comedies of the early 1930s -- 2. Working ladies and forgotten men : class divisions in romantic comedy, 1934-1937 -- 3. "The split-pea soup and the succotash" : Frank Capra's 1930s comedies and the subject of class -- 4. Is class necessary : Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks in the early 1940s -- 5. Desperately seeking status : class, gender, and social anxiety in postwar Hollywood comedy -- 6. Is there a class in this text : Woody Allen and postmodern comedy -- 7. Yuppies and other strangers : class satire and cultural clash in contemporary film comedy.

Summary: "Counter This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the development of sound comedy as a cinematic form. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s, filmmakers recognized that sound and narrative enlarged the semiotic and ideological potential of film. Analyzing the use of language in the films of the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, among others, Class, Language, and American Film Comedy traces the history of Hollywood from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis. "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/2001025935.html.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.

"Counter This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the development of sound comedy as a cinematic form. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s, filmmakers recognized that sound and narrative enlarged the semiotic and ideological potential of film. Analyzing the use of language in the films of the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, among others, Class, Language, and American Film Comedy traces the history of Hollywood from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis. "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/2001025935.html.