How does comedy in film attempt cultural criticism? How does cinema
use its own visual technology to reflect on and critique its power
within both politics and visual culture?
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film addresses these
questions in detail as it argues for the centrality of comedy in
film as a means of staging cultural criticism. Focusing on the
powerful and sustained shifts in visual culture that cinema helped
to generate, foster and question in the twentieth century, it
examines the issues of technology that allow film comedies to
engage in self-reflexive cultural criticism and to produce and
critique the use of visual technology within US and global cultural
politics.
Grounded in the theoretical writings of thinkers such as Jean
Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Friedrich Kittler and Jacques Derrida in
relation to repetition, automation, material systems of information
media, the level of address in a communicative act, and the
shifting role of the image, this book considers comedy as integral
for a critical engagement of the constructs of culture. It brings a
new perspective to comedy in film, invaluable to students and
scholars in Film Studies.
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