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Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s: Twelve American Films by Wes D. Gehring (Paperback, 2016)

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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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Mcfarland & Co Inc
ISBN-13
9780786495429
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221339488

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Book Title
Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s: Twelve American Films
Author
Wes D. Gehring
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
252 Pages

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Item Height
254mm
Item Width
178mm

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Title_Author
Wes D. Gehring
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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