The last laugh :  strange humors of cinema / 
edited by Murray Pomerance. 
 - 244 p.:  ill. 
 - Contemporary approaches to film and media .
<br/><br/>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. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M08 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814335130 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Laughter in motion pictures.<br/>Wit and humor in motion pictures.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995  / L349 2013