Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy Tapa dura - 1994
de William Paul
Descripción de contraportada
William Paul's exploration of an extremely popular box office genre - the gross-out movie - is the first book to take this lowbrow product seriously. Writing about "movies that embraced the lowest common denominator as an aesthetic principle, movies that critics constantly griped about having to sit through", Paul examines their unique place in our culture. He focuses on gross-out horror and comedy films of the seventies and eighties - film cycles set in motion by the extraordinary successes of The Exorcist and Animal House. What links these genres together, Paul argues, is their concern with the human body - and all its scatological and sexual aspects. These "films of license", as Paul calls them, embrace "explicitness as part of their aesthetic". Tracing both of these culturally disreputable subgenres back to older traditions of festive comedy and Grand Guignol, Paul finds their precursors in horror films like The Birds and Night of the Living Dead as well as comedies such as M*A*S*H and Blazing Saddles that were produced under Hollywood's then recently liberalized censorship code. Moving on to mass tastes, Paul asserts that American audiences are "not without powers of discrimination". He argues that gross-out movies challenge social tastes and values, but without the self-consciousness of avant-garde art. Through interpretations of classics by Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock, blaxploitation movies, horror films by David Cronenburg and Stanley Kubrick, and comedies starring John Belushi and Bill Murray, Paul establishes gross-out as a true genre - one that "speaks in the voice of festive freedom, uncorrected and unconstrained by the reality principle... aggressive, seeminglyimprovised, and always ambivalent".
Detalles
- Título Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy
- Autor William Paul
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First edition
- Páginas 552
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Columbia University Press, New York
- Fecha de publicación 1994-05-12
- ISBN 9780231084642 / 0231084641
- Peso 1.95 libras (0.88 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.26 x 6.33 x 1.5 pulgadas (23.52 x 16.08 x 3.81 cm)
- Época de 22 a UP años
- Cursos 17 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Horror films - History and criticism, Comedy films - History and criticism
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 93-27388
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/1994, Page 380
- Library Journal, 04/15/1994, Page 80
- School Library Journal, 04/01/1995, Page 169
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