[PDF.90ed] Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s: Twelve American Films

Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s: Twelve American Films

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 | #2661828 in Books |  2016-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.75 x7.00 x.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 252 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Not To Missed Book for Cineastes|By John Beineke|I just finished Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s: Twelve American Films by Wes Gehring and found it splendid. The masterful integration of film history, criticism, narratives from which the films were created, current references, and Gehring’s informed and engaging insights into the films sent me back for a se| |"Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship"--Choice.|About the Author|Wes D. Gehring is a distinguished professor of film at Ball State University and associate media editor for USA Today maga

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 servi...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s: Twelve American Films   |  Wes D Gehring, Foreword by David L. Smith.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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