Comedy and cultural critique in American film - Bishop, Ryan 1959- (Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
American film comedy and cultural critique: glitches in the smooth running of the social media -- The feeding machine and feeding the machine: silence, sound and the technologies of cinema -- The constitution of the real: documentary, mockumentary and the status of the image -- Parody: targeting cinema's narrative technics -- The unspeakable and political satire: performance, perception and technology -- Conclusion: Between the machine and the event: film comedy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism