Comedy Italian Style

Comedy Italian Style
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Publisher : Continuum
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015080845970
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Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Comedy Italian Style by : Rémi Fournier Lanzoni

'Comedy Italian Style' is an essential guide to the glorious works and filmmakers who make the world laugh with them. It is for all lovers of enduring, wry, over-the-top, side-splitting humour on film.

Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film

Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9781137515841
ISBN-13 : 1137515848
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film by : Andrea Bini

The most popular film genre during the golden years of Italian cinema, the Comedy Italian Style emerged after the fall of the Facist regime, narrating the identity crisis of many Italian men. Exploring the birth, growth, and decline of this genre, Bini shows this notable style was the search for a new role in the shattered postwar middle class.

Comedy Italian Style

Comedy Italian Style
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : IND:39000003995920
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Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Comedy Italian Style by : Ernesto G. Laura

The Cinema of Ettore Scola

The Cinema of Ettore Scola
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9780814343807
ISBN-13 : 0814343805
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cinema of Ettore Scola by : Rémi Lanzoni

The Cinema of Ettore Scola makes Scola accessible to English-reading audiences and helps readers better understand his film style, the major themes of his work, and the representations of twentieth-century Italian history in his films.

Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space

Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9781137403575
ISBN-13 : 1137403578
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space by : Natalie Fullwood

Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of gender in the everyday spaces of beaches and nightclubs, offices, cars, and kitchens, through the exploration of key spatial motifs.

When the World Laughs

When the World Laughs
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780190924997
ISBN-13 : 0190924993
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis When the World Laughs by : William V. Costanzo

When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and culture. It explores how film comedy, one of the world's most popular movie genres, reflects the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring characters and stories, its most entertaining routines and funniest jokes. What people laugh at in Europe, Africa, or the Far East reveals important truths about their differences and common bonds. By investigating their traditions of humor, by paying close attention to what kinds of comedy cross national boundaries or what gets lost in translation, this study leads us to a deeper understanding of each other and ourselves. Section One begins with a survey of the theories and research that best explain how humor works. It clarifies the varieties of comic forms and styles, identifies the world's most archetypal figures of fun, and traces the history of the world's traditions of humor from earliest times to today. It also examines the techniques and aesthetics of film comedy: how movies use the world's rich repertoire of amusing stories, gags, and wit to make us laugh and think. Section Two offers a close look at national and regional trends. It applies the concepts set forth earlier to specific films-across a broad spectrum of sub-genres, historical eras, and cultural contexts-providing an insightful comparative study of the world's great traditions of film comedy.

Comedy for Animators

Comedy for Animators
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9781317679554
ISBN-13 : 1317679555
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Comedy for Animators by : Jonathan Lyons

While comedy writers are responsible for creating clever scripts, comedic animators have a much more complicated problem to solve: What makes a physical character funny? Comedy for Animators breaks down the answer by exploring the techniques of those who have used their bodies to make others laugh. Drawing from traditions such as commedia dell’arte, pantomime, Vaudeville, the circus, and silent and modern film, animators will learn not only to create funny characters, but also how to execute gags, create a comic climate, and use environment as a character. Whether you’re creating a comic villain or a bumbling sidekick, this is the one and only guide you need to get your audience laughing! Explanation of comedic archetypes and devices will both inspire and inform your creative choices Exploration of various modes of storytelling allows you to give the right context for your story and characters Tips for creating worlds, scenarios, and casts for your characters to flourish in Companion website includes example videos and further resources to expand your skillset--check it out at www.comedyforanimators.com! Jonathan Lyons delivers simple, fun, illustrated lessons that teach readers to apply the principles of history’s greatest physical comedians to their animated characters. This isn’t stand-up comedy—it’s the falling down and jumping around sort!

A Companion to Film Comedy

A Companion to Film Comedy
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 585
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ISBN-10 : 9781119169550
ISBN-13 : 1119169550
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Film Comedy by : Andrew Horton

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

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781487503642
ISBN-13 : 1487503644
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines by : Melissa Emerson Walter

This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.

Beyond the Latin Lover

Beyond the Latin Lover
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 0253216443
ISBN-13 : 9780253216441
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the Latin Lover by : Jacqueline Reich

Marcello Mastroianni is considered by many to be the consummate symbol of Italian masculinity. In this work, Jacqueline Reich goes behind the popular image to reveal a figure at odds with and out of place in the unstable political, social and sexual climate of post-war Italy.