Sounding funny
Subtitle: sound and comedy cinema
By: edited by Mark Evans and Philip Hayward
Series: Genre, music and sound
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781781790991; 9781845536749
Subjects: Motion picture music; History and criticism; Film soundtracks; Production and direction; History; Comedy films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sounding funny : the importance of hearing the joke / Liz Giuffre and Mark Evans; title: The soundtrack as appropriate incongruity / Marshall Heiser; title: Trading places with Mozart / Ben Winters; title: Parody, self-parody and genre-parody : music in The Magnificent Seven and Three amigos! / Erik Heine; title: Austin Powers : intentional music man / Liz Giuffre and Mark Evans; title: Paranormal product : the music and promotion of Ghostbusters / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward; title: Red in tooth and lipstick : music and sound design in Lesbian vampire killers / Claire Butkus and Jon Fitzgerald; title: "Be a clown" and "make 'em laugh" : comic timing, rhythm, and Donald O'Connor's Face / Jonas Westover; title: Sound, comedy and cinematic modernism : Kaasua, komisario palmu! / Kimmo Laine and Anu Juva; title: Spanish film music in the 1940s : comedy, subversion, and dissident rhythms in the films of Manuel Parada / Laura Miranda; title: An Okinawan romance : lyrical dialogue, comedy and music in Nabbie's Love / Philip Hayward; title: A special flavour : comic song scenes in the Hindi cinema / Gregory D. Booth; title: Humour between the keys : a detailed analysis of the Cat concerto / Peter Morris.