Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 American Film Comedy and Cultural Critique: Glitches in the Smooth Running of the Social Machine
- 2 The Feeding Machine and Feeding the Machine: Silence, Sound and the Technologies of Cinema
- 3 The Constitution of the Real: Documentary, Mockumentary and the Status of the Image
- 4 Parody: Targeting Cinema's Narrative Technics
- 5 The Unspeakable and Political Satire: Performance, Perception and Technology
- 6 Conclusion: Between the Machine and the Event: Film Comedy
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 American Film Comedy and Cultural Critique: Glitches in the Smooth Running of the Social Machine
- 2 The Feeding Machine and Feeding the Machine: Silence, Sound and the Technologies of Cinema
- 3 The Constitution of the Real: Documentary, Mockumentary and the Status of the Image
- 4 Parody: Targeting Cinema's Narrative Technics
- 5 The Unspeakable and Political Satire: Performance, Perception and Technology
- 6 Conclusion: Between the Machine and the Event: Film Comedy
- Index
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- Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film , pp. 169 - 177Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2013