Class, language, and American film comedy / Christopher Beach.
Beach, Christopher| Call Number | 791.43/617 |
| Author | Beach, Christopher, author. |
| Title | Class, language, and American film comedy / Christopher Beach. Class, Language, & American Film Comedy |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (vii, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Summary | This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the development of sound comedy as a cinematic form. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s, filmmakers recognized that sound and narrative enlarged the semiotic and ideological potential of film. Analyzing the use of language in the films of the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, among others, Class, Language, and American Film Comedy traces the history of Hollywood from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis. |
| Subject | Comedy films United States History and criticism. Speech and social status United States. |
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| Summary | This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the development of sound comedy as a cinematic form. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s, filmmakers recognized that sound and narrative enlarged the semiotic and ideological potential of film. Analyzing the use of language in the films of the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, among others, Class, Language, and American Film Comedy traces the history of Hollywood from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Subject | Comedy films United States History and criticism. Speech and social status United States. |
| Multimedia |