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Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism (Film and Culture) - Softcover

Buch 68 von 86: Film and Culture

Turvey, Malcolm

 
9780231193030: Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism (Film and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0231193033 ISBN 13: 9780231193030
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a devoted following. In Play Time, Malcolm Turvey examines Tati’s unique comedic style and evaluates its significance for the history of film and modernism.

Turvey argues that Tati captured elite and general audiences alike by combining a modernist aesthetic with slapstick routines, gag structures, and other established traditions of mainstream film comedy. Considering films such as Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Play Time (1967), and Trafic (1971), Turvey shows how Tati drew on the rich legacy of comic silent film while modernizing its conventions in order to encourage his viewers to adopt a playful attitude toward the modern world. Turvey also analyzes Tati’s sardonic view of the bourgeoisie and his complex and multifaceted satire of modern life. Tati's singular and enduring achievement, Turvey concludes, was to translate the democratic ideals of the postwar avant-garde into mainstream film comedy, crafting a genuinely popular modernism. Richly illustrated with images from the director’s films, Play Time offers an illuminating and original understanding of Tati’s work.

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Malcolm Turvey is Sol Gittleman Professor in the Art and Art History Department and director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Tufts University. He is an editor of the journal October. His books include Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition (2008) and The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s (2011).

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Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231193033
ISBN 13 
9780231193030
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
282
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Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/

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