Hannu Salmi 
Historical Comedy on Screen [EPUB ebook] 
Subverting History with Humour

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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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Introduction: Mad History of the World  – Hannu Salmi, University of Turku

 


PART I: COMEDIANS AND COMIC REPRESENTATIONS


 

Buster Keaton’s Comedies of Southern History:
Our Hospitality and
The General – Susan E. Linville, University of Denver

 

From Ideal Husbands to Berserk Gargoyles: Comic Representations of the British Past in the 1950s and 1960s – Harri Kilpi, University of Helsinki

 

Comedians and Romance: History and Humour in Kalabalik – David Ludvigsson, University of Uppsala

 

Woody Allen and History – Maurice Yawocar, University of Calgary

 


PART II: NO LAUGHING MATTER

 

No Laughing Matter? Comedy and The Spanish Civil War – David Archibald, University of Glasgow

 

A Killer Joke? World War Two in Post-War British Television and Film Comedy – Rami Mähkä, University of Turku

 

“Holocaust-Nostalgia”, Humor and Irony: The Case of Pizza in Auschwitz – Hagai Dagan, Sapir College

 

Comedy and Counter-history – Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburg

Sobre el autor

Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku and director of the International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC). He is the author of, for example, Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History (2008) and the editor of Historical Comedy On Screen: Subverting History with Humour (2011).

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 208 ● ISBN 9781841505220 ● Tamaño de archivo 3.7 MB ● Editor Hannu Salmi ● Editorial Intellect Books Ltd ● Ciudad Bristol ● País GB ● Publicado 2014 ● Edición 1 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5457054 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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