Eccentric Laughter by Benedict Morrison
Eccentric Laughter explores new ways to watch postwar British film comedies, arguing that their representations of eccentricity offered a set of possible queer futures for a Britain that had been destabilized by years of conflict and social upheaval. Far-
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
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Wastelands and Wonderlands
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From Doors to Screens
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The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema
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Language Without Borders
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Overhearing Film Music
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On Shoreless Sea
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Haunting the World
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Celluloid Babel
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Happiness and Tears, After Cavell
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Cavell on Film
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Brief Encounters
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Déjà Viewed
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Plastic Time
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Visions in the Frame
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Hitchcock and Hospitality
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The Celluloid Atlantic
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Torturous Etiquettes
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The Slapstick Camera
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Action, Action, Action
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Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
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Seeing Symphonically
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Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
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Writ on Water
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Curtains of Light
"Eccentric Laughter offers a refreshing and stimulating look at postwar British comedies, informed by insights from diverse critical theories and perspectivesMorrison writes in an engaging prose style that generates both an infectious enthusiasm about the films as well as an ongoing dialogue of critical reappraisal." — Sarah Street, University of Bristol
Benedict Morrison is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Film at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema.
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| ISBN 13 | 9798855800029 |
| Title | Eccentric Laughter |
| Author | Benedict Morrison |
| Series | Suny Series Horizons Of Cinema |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2025-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 294 |
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