ABSTRACT
As you work your way through this chapter you need to watch at least some of the following films in full and at least short sequences from the others:
■ East is East (O’Donnell, 1994) ■ The Full Monty (Cattaneo, 1997) ■ Passport to Pimlico (Cornelius, 1949) ■ The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton, 1951) ■ Genevieve (Cornelius, 1953)
This chapter deals with:
■ the nature of comedy as a genre; ■ representational ways of seeing the world to be found in comedies; ■ possible approaches to recent British comedies; ■ possible approaches to postwar British comedies.
