01584cam a2200217 i 4500 121114s2013 miua b s001 0 eng 9780814335130 SDU PN1995 L349 2013 The last laugh : strange humors of cinema / edited by Murray Pomerance. 244 p.: ill. Contemporary approaches to film and media 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 YT2025 M08 Laughter in motion pictures. 209007 Wit and humor in motion pictures. 127740 Pomerance, Murray, 1946- editor of compilation. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 108616 108616 0 0 lcc 0 PN1995 L349 02013 0 CGB 279914 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-01 2 0 PN1995 L349 2013 1000362545 2025-09-01 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-01 GBE