书目名称 | Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films | 编辑 | Artur Skweres | 视频video | | 概述 | Reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films.Focuses exclusively on the elements typical of play that can be found in movies.Represents an important addi | 丛书名称 | Second Language Learning and Teaching | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study .Homo Ludens. (1938) and Roger Caillois in .Les jeux et les hommes. (1958). To address the lack of attention paid to the play principle in film comedy studies, this book focuses exclusively on the elements typical of play that can be found in movies. It introduces two new categories describing play: óneiros and pragma, which allow analysis of how play in comedies is influenced by the relations between the player and non-players. The text is supplemented by the use of the author’s drawings, which, because of their analytical and selective nature, are used as a tool for visual study...The play principle has a long tradition in American humor and the films examined here were chosen for their popularity and wide appeal, often acting as vehicles for Hollywood stars (e.g. Chevy Chase,Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Goldie Hawn, Mike Myers, Jackie Chan or Chris Tucker). The actors’ status allowed the filmmakers to construct situations in which the protagonists distanced themselv | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | American Comedy Films; Ludic elements in movies; Comic Hero; Roleplaying; Huzinga; Caillois; Óneiros; Pragm | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47967-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-83869-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-47967-5Series ISSN 2193-7648 Series E-ISSN 2193-7656 | issn_series | 2193-7648 | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |
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