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Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 337 p.)
Description
Comic Grace is Comb's third book on the movies for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. These books hardly form a trilogy, but they do express a pragmatic interest of the author; namely, the aspects of movies that we have not adequately studied. More specifically, the first, Movie Time, examines the inadequately understood temporal appearance of movies, in movies set in the past, the present, and the future, attempting to make sense of such questions as...
Author
Series
Film- und Medienwissenschaft volume 14
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (110 pages).
11) Wayne's world
Description
Wayne's World : Television hosts, Wayne and Garth, are offered a fat contract to tape their late night cable-access show at the network of a sleazy TV executive. They soon discover the road to success is fraught with danger, temptation, and party opportunities.
Wayne's World 2 : Wayne is back, this time trying to organize a rock festival with help from friend Garth and the spirit of Jim Morrison (Doors). Meanwhile, his girlfriend's manager is busy...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xi, 264 p. : ill.
Description
"The Comedy of Philosophy brings modern debates in continental philosophy to bear on the historical study of early cinematic comedy. Through the films of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, Lisa Trahair investigates early cinema's exploration of sense and nonsense by utilizing the contributions to the philosophy of comedy made by Freud and Bataille and by examining significant poststructuralist interpretations...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 222 p. : ill.
Description
Series Editors' Foreword. Preface. Introduction. Part I. 1. Camera Men. 2. Mickey's Mechanical Man. 3. Goldberg Variations. Part II. 4. Wyndham Lewis, Soldier of Humor. 5. Beckett's Machinations. 6. A More than Infinite Jest. Conclusion.




