Overview: Presents an interdisciplinary study of comedy using Canadian communications and literary theory.Features close readings of the following popular films: Up in the Air, Tropic Thunder, JCVD, Winnebago M.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,
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