Class, Language, and American Film Comedy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521002095
ISBN-13
9780521002097
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 11th, 2002
Print length
252 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.60 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismFilm history, theory or criticism
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Examining the use of language in the films of the Marx brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, Beach traces the history of the Hollywood comedy from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis.
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.
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