Format:
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages)
ISBN:
9780203146330
,
9781136508332
,
9781136508370
,
9781136508387
Series Statement:
British popular cinema
Content:
1. British comedy cinema : sex, class and very naughty boys / Laraine Porter and I.Q. Hunter -- 2. From slapstick to satire : British comedy cinema before 1930 / Laraine Porter -- 3. "No limit" : British class and comedy of the 1930s / Lawrence Napper -- 4. "Northern films for Northern people" : the story of the Mancunian Film Company / C.P. Lee -- 5. Ealing comedies 1947-57 : "The bizarre British, faced with another extraordinary situation" / Tim O'Sullivan -- 6. "From adolescence into maturity" : the film comedy of the Boulting brothers / Alan Burton -- 7. Margaret Rutherford and comic performance / Sarah Street -- 8. A short history of the Carry on films / James Chapman -- 9. "Gird your armour on" : the genteel subversion of the St. Trinian's films / Andrew Roberts -- 10. Norman Wisdom : Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump / Richard Dacre -- 11. "From telly laughs to belly laughs" : the rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off / Peter Waymark -- 12. From window cleaner to potato man : confessions of a working-class stereotype / I.Q. Hunter -- 13. Making Ben-Hur look like an epic : Monty Python at the movies / Justin Smith -- 14. Travels in Curtisland : Richard Curtis and British comedy cinema / James Leggott -- 15. "The sight of 40-year-old genitalia too disgusting, is it?" : wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation, 1900-present / Paul Wells.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415666657
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415666671
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415666657
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203146330
