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French film comedies have always been extremely popular with English-speaking audiences, especially in America with the numerous Hollywood remakes of comedies from France. These films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time they have always been difficult to classify. Often a combination of several genres, they can be described as a hybrid art form, incorporating basic slapstick elements (the Lumiere's brothers L'arroseur arose, 1895) all the way to rather daring, even delicate subjects such as War (Autant-Lara's La traversee de Paris, 1956) or racism (Philippe de Chauveron's Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? 2014). The diversity of disciplines - history, linguistics, social and political sciences - that form the background of this analysis guarantees a variety of approaches. French Comedy on Screen investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscribed and exemplified a variety of cultural and historical landmarks.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: French Comedy on Screen
• Subtitle: A Cinematic History
• Author: Remi Fournier Lanzoni
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 265
• EAN: 9780230338425
• ISBN: 0230338429
• ID: 04553977
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 460 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 162 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. October 2014

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