French Comedy on Screen [electronic resource] : A Cinematic History /
Lanzoni, R.author.
French comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time they have always been difficult to classify. This book investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscribed and exemplified a variety of cultural and historical landmarks.
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Cover; French Comedy on Screen; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Theories of Comedy; The Registers of Film Comedy; Character Comedies; Verbal Comedies; Self-deprecating Humor; Gesture Comedies/Slapstick/Burlesque; Comedies of the absurd; Comedies of Manners; Situational Comedies; Grotesque Comedies; Parodies; Satires; Irony; Farce; Chapter 1: The Early Comedies of the Sound Era; I. Forerunner Comedies in the 1930s: Chansonniers and Musical Comedies; Spectatorship and Genre: The Question of Filmed Theater; Emblematic Transfers from Stage to Screen
Marcel Pagnol versus René ClairII. From Military Vaudeville to Comique Troupier; Censorship and Military Vaudeville; The Genre of an Epoque: The Comique Troupier; III. Sacha Guitry and the Auteur Theory; The Voice-Over in Question; IV. Period Comedies: When Humor Challenged History; Money, Greed, and Corruption as Comic Device; V. Regional Comedies: The Provence of Marcel Pagnol; The Role of Dialogues: Form and Content; The Essence of Comedy; Pagnol: Humanist or Naturalist?; VI. Verbal Comedy Meets Parisian Slang; Argot, Javanais, and Parisian Slang; Chapter 2: The Comedies of Postwar France
I. Social Satires in Postwar FranceCensorship and Comedies; II. Comedies and World War II; The Ocupation's Quotidian Through Autant-Lara's Comic Lens; Situational Comedies: Henri Verneuil's War Tales; War Comedy Makes History at the Box Office; III. Gangster Comedies as Popular Cinema; French Film Noir Parody; IV. From Regional to National Stardom: The Case of Fernandel; V. Jacques Tati and Burlesque Humor; Revisiting France's Hasted Modernization: Satire or Parody?; Chapter 3: Comedy in the Modern Era; I. The Spirit of the Times: The 1970s and 1980s
II. The Early Development of Race-Based SatiresThe Mad Adventures of Race in French Comedy; African Immigration in French Comedy; III. Comedies on Nonconformity and Homosexuality; Provocation, Cynicism, and Unlimited Audacity: The Comedy According to Bertrand Blier; IV. Gender Roles and Comedies of Manners; V. The Newcomers of French Comedy: Le Splendide; VI. When Comedy Challenges French Institutions; VII. Pierre Richard and the Renewal of Burlesque Comedy; Chapter 4: French Comedy Today; I. Communitarian Humor: Ethnic Diversity and Cinematic Space; Cinéma de Banlieue; Stand-Up Comedy
Ethnic ComedySelf-Deprecating Jewish Humor; The Ultimate Ethnic Comedy: Les Kaïra; II. From Stand-Up to Big Screen Comedy: Les Inconnus' Social Satire; III. Screening New Sexual Encounters: Gazon Maudit; IV. Comedy as a Social Phenomenon; The Triumphant Return of Regional Comedies; Appendix: Box Office in France (in Million Entrances); Notes; Introduction; I The Early Comedies of the Sound Era; 2 The Comedies of Postwar France; 3 Comedy in the Modern Era; 4 French Comedy Today; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
French comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time they have always been difficult to classify. This book investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscribed and exemplified a variety of cultural and historical landmarks.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Film History.
Directing.
European Cinema and TV.
Screen Studies.
Arts.