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British Comedy Cinema

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British Comedy Cinema

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British Comedy Cinema book

British Comedy Cinema

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British Comedy Cinema book

Edited ByI.Q. Hunter, Laraine Porter
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 9 April 2012
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203146330
Pages 240
eBook ISBN 9780203146330
Subjects Humanities
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Hunter, I.Q., & Porter, L. (Eds.). (2012). British Comedy Cinema (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203146330

ABSTRACT

British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history.

This edited volume will offer the first comprehensive account of the rich and popular history of British comedy cinema from silent slapstick and satire to contemporary romantic comedy. Using a loosely chronological approach, essays cover successive decades of the 20th and 21st Century with a combination of case studies on key personalities, production cycles and studio output along with fresh approaches to issues of class and gender representation. It will present new research on familiar comedy cycles such as the Ealing Comedies and Carry On films as well as the largely undocumented silent period along with the rise of television spin offs from the 1970s and the development of animated comedy from 1915 to the present.

Films covered include: St Trinians, A Fish Called Wanda, Brassed Off, Local Hero, The Full Monty, Four Lions and In the Loop.

Contributors: Melanie Bell, Alan Burton, James Chapman, Richard Dacre, Ian Hunter, James Leggott, Sharon Lockyer, Andy Medhurst, Lawrence Napper, Tim O’Sullivan, Laraine Porter, Justin Smith, Sarah Street, Peter Waymark, Paul Wells

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|17 pages

British comedy cinema: Sex, class and very naughty boys

ByLARAINE PORTER AND I.Q. HUNTER

chapter 2|20 pages

From slapstick to satire: British comedy cinema before 1930

ByLARAINE PORTER

chapter 3|13 pages

‘No limit’: British class and comedy of the 1930s

ByLAWRENCE NAPPER

chapter 4|15 pages

‘Northern films for Northern people’: The story of the Mancunian Film

ByCompany C.P. LEE

chapter 5|11 pages

Ealing comedies 1947–57: ‘The bizarre British, faced with another perfectly extraordinary situation’

ByTIM O’SULLIVAN

chapter 6|12 pages

‘From adolescence into maturity’: The film comedy of the Boulting brothers

ByALAN BURTON

chapter 7|11 pages

Margaret Rutherford and comic performance

BySARAH STREET

chapter 8|16 pages

A short history of the Carry On films

ByJAMES CHAPMAN

chapter 9|12 pages

‘Gird your armour on’: The genteel subversion of the St. Trinian’s films

ByANDREW ROBERTS

chapter 10|13 pages

Norman Wisdom: Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump

ByRICHARD DACRE

chapter 11|13 pages

‘From telly laughs to belly laughs’: The rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off

ByPETER WAYMARK

chapter 12|17 pages

From window cleaner to potato man: Confessions of a working-class stereotype

ByI.Q. HUNTER

chapter 13|13 pages

Making Ben-Hur look like an epic: Monty Python at the movies

ByJUSTIN SMITH

chapter 14|12 pages

Travels in Curtisland: Richard Curtis and British comedy cinema

ByJAMES LEGGOTT

chapter 15|13 pages

‘The sight of 40-year-old genitalia too disgusting, is it?’: Wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation, 1900–present

ByPAUL WELLS
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