French comedy on screen : a cinematic history / Remi Fournier Lanzoni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fournier-Lanzoni, Rémi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comedy films--France--History and criticism.

Comedy films.

France.

Physical Description:

viii, 265 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

French film comedies have always been extremely popular with English-speaking audiences, especially in America with the numerous Hollywood remakes of comedies from France. These films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time, they have always been difficult to classify. Often a combination of several genres, they can be described as a hybrid art form, incorporating basic slapstick elements (the Lumière brothers's L'arroseur arrosé, 1895), all the way to rather daring, even delicate subjects such as war (Autant-lara's La traverséede Paris, 1956) or racism (Philippe de Chauveron's Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? 2014). The diversity of disciplines-history, linguistics, and social and political sciences-that form the background of this analysis guarantees a variety of approaches. French Comedy on Screen investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscribed and exemplified an array of cultural and historical landmarks. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The early comedies of the sound era

The comedies of Post War France

Comedy in the modern era

French comedy today.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230338425

0230338429

OCLC:

882530905