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Examining the evolution of American film comedy since the beginning of the sound era (c. 1930), Christopher Beach focuses on how language, class, and social relationships in early sound comedies by the Marx Brothers, the screwball comedies of the 1930s by Capra, Sturges and others, and 1950s comedies of Frank Tashlin and Vincente Minnelli, and contemporary films by Woody Allen, Whit Stillman, and the Coen brothers. Beach argues that sound and narrative expanded the semiotic and ideological potential of a film, providing moments of genuine social critique and also mass entertainment. Christopher Beach teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and has taught at the University of Montana and Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of three books on American poetry, including Poetic Culture (Northwestern, 1999). This is his first book on film.
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Christopher Beach examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class, highlighting the importance of class in the development of sound comedy as a cinematic form. Though an analysis of the films of the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen, and the Coen brothers, among others, Class, Language and American Film Comedy traces the history of Hollywood from 1930s to the present while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis.
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"...a solid text that should be appealing to most humorists, film critics, linguists, rhetoricians, educators, and a general public interested in the history of film comedy." - Humor, William B. Covey, Slippery Rock University
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