Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose ...

Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137562500

Category: Performing Arts

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Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.

Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s Abstract: In the 1960s, themes which had previously been dealt with only in the most serious fashion were suddenly subject to burlesque, or parody, as filmmakers and audiences sought to move beyond the ...

Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137562500

Category: Performing Arts

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Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.

explains why it rose to prominence over this time period in his analysis Dark Humor in the Films of the 1960s: [...] viewers embraced a new vision of the world unfettered by the constraints of prior censorship, and wedded to a sense of ...

Author: Mary Harrod

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781315526072

Category: Social Science

Page: 266

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This volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to ‘undo’ or ‘subvert’ popular formats, but also to draw on their generative force. Recent examples of filmmakers and creative practitioners within and outside Hollywood as well as women working in non-directing authorial roles remind us that women are in various ways authoring commercially and culturally impactful texts across a range of genres. Put simply, this volume asks: what do women who are creatively engaged with audio-visual industries do with genre and what does genre do with them? The contributors to the collection respond to this question from diverse perspectives and with different answers, spanning issues of direction, screenwriting, performance and audience address/reception.

Wheeler Winston Dixon, “Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Frame by Frame, August 27, 2012, http://blog.unl. edu/dixon/2012/08/27/dark-humor-in-films-ofthe-1960s-%E2%80%93-part-2/. 6.

Author: Anthony Balducci

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476622217

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 216

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A film archetype as old as film itself, the man-child has been an enduring comedy subject. Classics as diverse as Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) and The Apartment (1960) have used the immature male to drive plots and press the importance of growing up. But he was not born fully formed—it took the shifting social norms of decades to mold the atrocious behavior of the puerile buffoon we know today. The man-child has come under scrutiny in recent years. Prominent writers, including David Denby and A.O. Scott, have criticized the modern comedian behaving in shamelessly childish ways. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the character of the man-child, from André Deed, who debuted on screen in 1901, to Seth Rogen. The author discusses changing cultural attitudes about maturity, what it means to be an adult, what it means to be a child and how those things are becoming increasingly confused.

Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955), a comedy dealing with the difficulties of disposing of a dead body, was an important landmark in the rise of black comedy in American film. By the beginning of the 1960s Roger Corman's ...

Author: M. Keith Booker

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781538130124

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 655

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One of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century. This history not only includes a legacy of hundreds of important films but also the evolution of the film industry itself, which is in many ways a microcosm of the history of American society. Historical Dictionary of American Cinema, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries covering people, films, companies, techniques, themes, and subgenres that have made American cinema such a vital part of world culture.

Moreover, the fact that the antiestablishment 1960s spawned the mainstream birth of black comedy had an even more direct impact on the spoof film. Because of the shared comic disregard each of these genres has for standard norms, ...

Author: Wes D. Gehring

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 9780313261862

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 249

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An overview of the place of parody in film history. It defines the genre, differentiating it from satire, and demonstrates how a well-executed spoof provides an educational blueprint of its target genre. Films discussed include "Destry Rides Again" (1939) and "Scream" (1996)

One perspective as to why is enumerated by Morris Dickstein in an essay on black humor novels of the early sixties : " ... it's because the unsolved moral enigma of that period and that experience most closely expresses the conundrum of ...

Author: Judith E. Doneson

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

ISBN: 0815629265

Category: History

Page: 308

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This work offers insights into how specific films influenced the Americanization of the Holocaust and how the medium per se helped seed that event into the public consciousness. In addition to an in-depth study on films produced for both theatrical release and TV since 1937 - including The Great Dictator, Cabaret, Julia, and the mini-series Holocaust - this work provides an analysis of Schindler's List and the debate over the merit of Spielberg's vision of the Holocaust. It also examines more thoroughly made-for-television movies, such as Escape From Sobibor, Playing For Time, and War and Remembrance. A special chapter on The Diary of Anne Frank discusses the evolution of that singularly European work into a universal symbol. Paying special attention to the tumultuous 1960s in America, it assesses the effect of the era on Holocaust films made during that time. It also discusses how these films helped integrate the Holocaust into the fabric of American society, transforming it into a metaphor for modern suffering. Finally, the work explores cinema in relation to the Americanization of the Jewish image.

In Dark Laughter, Juan F. Egea provides a remarkable in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and ...

Author: Juan F. Egea

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

ISBN: 9780299295431

Category: History

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In Dark Laughter, Juan F. Egea provides a remarkable in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humor. Egea begins his analysis with General Franco's dictatorship in the 1960s—a regime that opened the country to new economic forces while maintaining its repressive nature—exploring key works by Luis García Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, and Luis Buñuel. Dark Laughter then moves to the first films of Pedro Almodóvar in the early 1980s during the Spanish political transition to democracy before examining Alex de la Iglesia and the new dark comedies of the 1990s. Analyzing this younger generation of filmmakers, Egea traces dark comedy to Spain's displays of ultramodernity such as the Universal Exposition in Seville and the Barcelona Olympic Games. At its core, Dark Laughter is a substantial inquiry into the epistemology of comedy, the intricacies of visual modernity, and the relationship between cinema and a wider framework of representational practices.

This chapter traces the development of dark comedy from Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of the genre in the mid-1960s, through the comic experiments of the so-called New Hollywood in the late 1960s and 1970s, to the revival of dark comedy ...

Author: Andrew Horton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781119169550

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 585

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A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors

Outside the personality comedian world of Chaplin and his fellow clowns, black humor had an occasional tendency to ... 1988), however, one finds that the modern (1960s) conception of black film comedy begins with Stanley Kubrick's Dr.

Author: Adolphe Nysenholc

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110857740

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 401

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