TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pomerance,Murray
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The last laugh: strange humors of cinema 
T2  - Contemporary approaches to film and media
SN  - 9780814338551
AV  - PN1995.9.L39 L37 2013
U1  - 791.43/617 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Detroit
PB  - Wayne State University Press
KW  - Wit and humor in motion pictures
KW  - Laughter in motion pictures
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index; Introduction: the great corrective / Murray Pomerance -- Laughing silently / Matthew Solomon -- Wellesian laughter / James Morrison -- Jerry made his day / Jean-Michel Frodon -- Noir at play / Thomas Leitch -- "So bad it's good": critical humor in science fiction cinema / Christine Cornea -- Wrenching departures: mortality and absurdity in avant-garde film / David Sterritt -- Time's timing and the threat of laughter in Nicolas Roeg's Don't look now / George Toles -- The gangster giggles / Murray Pomerance -- If only they had meant to make a comedy: laughing at Black swan / Adrienne L. McLean -- Foolish bum, funny shit: scatological humor in Hal Hartley's not-so-comedic Henry Fool / David Martin-Jones -- Homeric laughter in The treasure of the Sierra Madre / R. Barton Palmer -- "Why so serious?": battling the comic in The dark knight / Dominic Lennard -- The laughter of robots / Linda Ruth Williams
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814338551/
ER  -