Search Results - "Black comedy"

Writing the comedy film make 'em laugh by Voytilla, Stuart 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Sit down, shut up, and split a gut -- Comic perspective : how to develop a comic voice -- How comedy works : the physics of funny -- The tenets of laughter -- Comedy is conflict and collision -- Comedy is conviction -- Comedy is deception -- Comedy is wish-fulfillment and worst fear -- Comedy is truth -- Comedy is chaos and anarchy -- Comedy and children -- Comic stories and their structures -- Fish-out-of-water -- Romantic comedy -- The sports comedy -- The crime/caper comedy -- The military comedy -- The teen/coming-of-age comedy -- The ensemble comedy -- Farce -- Black comedy -- Satire, parody and mockumentary -- The end of the laughter? …”
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World-wide Shakespeares local appropriations in film and performance

Table of Contents: “…-- Shooting the hero : the cinematic career of Henry V from Laurence Olivier to Philip Purser / Ton Hoensellars -- Lamentable tragedy or black comedy : Friedrich D?renmatt's adaptation of Titus Andronicus / Lukas Erne -- Subjection and redemption in Pasolini's Othello / Sonia Massai -- "Meaning by Shakespeare" south of the border / Alfredo Modenessi -- Dreams of England / Robert Shaughnessy -- The cultural logic of "correcting" The merchant of venice / Maria Jones -- Dancing with art : Robert Lepage's Hamlet / Margaret Jane Kidnie -- Hekepia? …”
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