Historical Comedy On Screen
：Subverting History with Humour
( 1 )
Publication subTitle ：Subverting History with Humour
Publication series ：1
Publisher： Intellect Books
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781841505220
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781841503677
Subject： I1 World Literature;I106.8 Childrens Literature;J0 Art Theory;J1 Overview of World Art
Keyword： 世界文学,世界各国艺术概况,艺术理论
Language： ENG
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Description
In 1893, Friedrich Engels branded history the cruelest goddess of all. This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are few places this is more evident than in historical cinema which tends to portray the past in a somber manner. Historical Comedy on Screen examines this tendency paying particular attention to the themes most difficult to laugh at and exploring the place where comical and historical storytelling intersect. The first scholarly book of its kind, this work emphasizes the many oft-overlooked comical renderings of history and asks what they have to tell us if we begin to take them seriously.