Research Catalog

Title

Sounding funny : sound and comedy cinema / edited by Mark Evans and Philip Hayward.

Publication

Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Evans, Mark, 1973-
• Hayward, Philip.

Description

vi, 259 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Genre, music and sound

Uniform Title

Genre, music and sound

Subject

• Motion picture music > History and criticism
• Film soundtracks > History
• Comedy films > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sounding funny : the importance of hearing the joke / Liz Giuffre and Mark Evans -- The soundtrack as appropriate incongruity / Marshall Heiser -- The sound of satire; or, Trading places with Mozart / Ben Winters -- Parody, self-parody and genre-parody : music in The Magnificent Seven and Three amigos! / Erik Heine -- Austin Powers : intentional music man / Liz Giuffre and Mark Evans -- Paranormal product : the music and promotion of Ghostbusters / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward -- Red in tooth and lipstick : music and sound design in Lesbian vampire killers / Clarice Butkus and Jon Fitzgerald -- "Be a clown" and "make 'em laugh" : comic timing, rhythm, and Donald O'Connor's face / Jonas Westover -- Sound, comedy and cinematic modernism : Kaasua, komisario palmu! / Kimmo Laine and Anu Juva -- Spanish film music in the 1940s : comedy, subversion, and dissident rhythms in the films of Manuel Parada / Laura Miranda -- An Okinawan romance : lyrical dialogue, comedy and music in Nabbie's Love / Philip Hayward -- A special flavour : comic song scenes in the Hindi cinema / Gregory D. Booth -- Humour between the keys : a detailed analysis of The cat concerto / Peter Morris.

ISBN

• 9781781790991
• 178179099X
• 9781845536749
• 1845536746

LCCN

• ^^2014044378
• 9781781790991

OCLC

936576297

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library