Historical Comedy on Screen : Subverting History With Humour
Language: English
Published by Intellect Ltd, 2011
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Historical Comedy on Screen : Subverting History With Humour
- Author
- Salmi, Hannu (EDT)
- Publisher
- Intellect Ltd
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1841503673
- ISBN 13
- 9781841503677
In 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history “the cruelest goddess of all.” This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are few places this is more evident than in historical cinema which tends to portray the past in a somber manner.
Historical Comedy on Screen
examines this tendency paying particular attention to the themes most difficult to laugh at and exploring the place where comical and historical storytelling intersect. The book emphasizes the many oft-overlooked comical renderings of history and asks what they have to tell us if we begin to take them seriously.
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About the Author
Hannu Salmi is professor of cultural history at the University of Turku in Finland and coeditor of the series Studies on Popular Culture, also published by Intellect.
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