Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s Twelve American Films
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
ab 18 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
15.03.2016
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
252
Maße (L/B/H)
25.4/17.8/1.4 cm
Gewicht
467 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7864-9542-9
This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about death--hardly Fred and Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a breaking of formula that director Robert Altman called ""anti-genre."" Altman's MASH (1970) ridiculed the military establishment in general--the Vietnam War in particular--under the guise of a standard military service comedy. The picaresque Western Little Big Man (1970) turned the bluecoats vs. Indians formula upside-down--the audience roots for the Indians instead of the cavalry. The book covers 12 essential films, including Harold and Maude (1971), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Being There (1979), with notes on A Clockwork Orange (1971). These films reveal a compounding complexity that reinforces the absurdity at the heart of dark comedy.
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