British comedy cinema
By: edited by I.Q. Hunter and Laraine Porter
Series: British popular cinema
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415666657; 9780415666671; 9780203146330
Subjects: Comedy films; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: British comedy cinema: sex, class and very naughty boys / Laraine Porter and I.Q. Hunter; title: British silent comedy: from slapstick to satire / Laraine Porter; title: No limit: British class and comedy of the 1930s / Lawrence Napper; title: "Northern films for Northern people": the story of the Mancunian Film Company / C.P. Lee; title: Ealing Comedies 1947-1957: "The bizarre British, faced with yet another extraordinary situation" / Tim O'Sullivan; title: From adolescence into maturity: the film comedy of the Boulting Brothers / Alan Burton; title: Margaret Rutherford and comic performance / Sarah Street; title: A short history of the carry on films / James Chapman; title: Gird your armour on: the genteel subversion of the St. Trinian's films / Andrew Roberts; title: Norman Wisdom: Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump / Richard Dacre; title: From telly laughs to belly laughs: the rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off / Peter Waymark; title: From window cleaner to potato man: confessions of a working class stereotype / I.Q. Hunter; title: Making Ben-Hur look like an epic: Monty Python at the movies / Justin Smith; title: Travels in Curtisland: Richard Curtis and British comedy cinema / James Leggott; title: The sight of 40 year old genitalia too disgusting, is it: wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation 1900-present / Paul Wells.