This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films
which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All
That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about death - hardly Fred and
Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a breaking
of formula that director Robert Altman called ""anti-genre.""
Altman's M.A.S.H. (1970) ridiculed the military establishment in
general - the Vietnam War in particular - under the guise of a
standard military service comedy. The picaresque Western Little Big
Man (1970) turned the bluecoats vs. Indians formula upside-down -
the audience roots for the Indians instead of the cavalry. The book
covers 12 essential films, including Harold and Maude (1971),
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
and Being There (1979), with notes on A Clockwork Orange (1971).
These films reveal a compounding complexity that reinforces the
absurdity at the heart of dark comedy.
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