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Comedies of nihilism = the representation of tragedy onscreen /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Comedies of nihilism/ by Amir Khan.
Reminder of title:	the representation of tragedy onscreen /
Author:	Khan, Amir.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xi, 183 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Comedy films - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59894-9
ISBN:	9783319598949

Comedies of nihilism = the representation of tragedy onscreen /
Khan, Amir.

Comedies of nihilismthe representation of tragedy onscreen /[electronic resource] :by Amir Khan. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xi, 183 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. Farming out Resentment: Up in the Air -- 3. All War and No Agency: Tropic Thunder -- 4. Tragic Cinema: The Death of Subjectivities in JCVD -- 5. Hiding from Significance: Winnebago Man -- 6. A Claim to Community: The Trotsky -- 7. A Plea for Time in a State of Nature: Be Kind Rewind -- 8. Losing the Name of Action: Hamlet 2 -- 9. Conclusion.

Amir Khan's eloquent voice and discerning mind take his reader on an exhilarating and provocative journey through seven post-9/11 films. Following the sage guidance of Stanley Cavell, Khan invites us to engage in clear-eyed and instructive discussions about film and moral reasoning, which thoughtful moviegoers will gratefully enjoy. Khan's book will generously reward contemporary American efforts to accurately descry the True North, and it will provide fresh insight into American self-understanding as Canada's imperial movie-making neighbor to the south.' - Lawrence F. Rhu, Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina, USA This book presents close-readings of seven post-millennial comedic films: Up in the Air, Tropic Thunder, JCVD, Winnebago Man, The Trotsky, Be Kind Rewind, and Hamlet 2. It is a sequel to Stanley Cavell's 1981 landmark study of the comedic genre, Pursuits of Happiness, where he examines seven comedies of Hollywood's "Golden Age." Khan puts forward the idea that comedies, once centred on the conventional "happy ending," are no longer interested in detailing the steps to any ending we might call happy. Instead, the agenda of most culturally serious comedies today is to "spoof," to make all that is fair foul. The seven films presented here risk a type of cultural nihilism--spoofing for the sake of spoofing and nothing else, indicative not of film's promise but it's failure. By equating the failure of film with the failed national politics of Canada (or the failed politics of nationalism and community more generally), this study shows that comedy has less to do with happiness, and more to do with the grotesque. The films analysed represent hyper-realized forms of comic irony and move towards what theatre knows as tragedy, or a tragic vision. Amir Khan is Assistant Professor of English at Liaoning Normal University-Missouri State University's College of International Business in Dalian, China. He is managing editor of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies and author of Shakespeare in Hindsight (2016)

ISBN: 9783319598949

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-59894-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1197407
Comedy films
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.C55 / K43 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43617

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