PPT-COMEDY IN FILM

VOCABULARY LIST CRITICAL VIEWING BLACK COMEDY Looking at the grim with a grin black comedy finds humor in serious matters eg death terminal illness etc Fargo The Cable Guy The Graduate Dr. comcoynessandcrimeinrestorat ioncomedyfreedownload Comedy. We call cultural content meant primarily to generate mirth “comedy”. All genres include comedic elements. Some argue that any story where the low-born or put-upon rise to a higher station and a better end is a comedy. From . 5th . century . BCE. . Birdland. Definition. Aristotle describes the genre of comedy in . The Poetics.. Comedy represents men as worse than they are in real life, whereas tragedy shows them better.. Pre-Reading Study Guide. By . PresenterMedia.com. Who was Dante Alighieri?. Dante, of course, is the author of . The Divine Comedy. . He was born a Roman Catholic in Florence in 1265 C.E. . He died of malaria in Ravenna, Italy, in 1321 (the night of Sept. 13-14). . By Luke Higgins & Andrew Birch . Market Research . On doing our market research we looked a several past comedies that had been very successful some of these past comedies were films such as American Pie, Super Bad, Epic movie, Jack and Jill and The Imbetweeners. We where inspired by all of these films but the one that inspired us the most was Imbetweeners and the transformation it underwent As it became such a popular series that they made a film. All of the settings locations and characters were also possible to achieve as it was set in a school and the main four characters where all 6. Questions of gennre - Folio edition, 1623. Mixture of comic and tragic . elements. ‘comic relief’ in tragedies . t. he gravedigger . in Hamlet, . the . Fool in . King Lear. , . Falstaff . in . Henry IV. Famous comedic teams (Some of them, anyway!). The 3 stooges. In film, the Stooges ran from . 1930-1969. Longest and most famous combination of Stooges = Larry, Curly, & Moe (this combo ran for 14 years). It Happened One Night . Starring. : Clark Gable and Claudette . Colbert. Directed . by: Frank . Capra. Studio. : Columbia. Studio System Influence. According . to legend, Clark Gable was loaned to Columbia Pictures, then considered a minor studio, as punishment for refusing a role at his own studio;. in Hong Kong. . Bilingual. . Improv. Brigade. 香. 港浸會大學知識轉移處. Knowledge Transfer Office. Hong Kong Baptist University. Project Leader. Dr. WEE . Lian-Hee. Department . Aristotle defined comedy as one of two main forms of drama—comedy and tragedy. Most contemporary views see comedy as a form of humorous text. Why are we amused?. Relief theory. Reducing physiological tension caused by the self-censoring of the baser instincts (Freud). Measure for Measure. ?. EN301: Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his Time. Festive comedy. In his essay ‘The Argument of Comedy’ (1949), Northrop Frye identified “a . social as well as an individual . Romantic Comedy. Bellringer. What is your favorite Romantic Comedy? Was the relationship believable? . What makes this your favorite romantic comedy?. If you don’t enjoy romantic comedy, explain why not.. Comedy. A comedy is a play that treats characters and situations in a humorous way and has a happy ending.. Comes from the Greek words . komos. . and . ode, . meaning revel song.. Comedies don’t always make you laugh out loud, but usually at least amuse you.. ‘Laughter must answer to certain requirements of life in common. It must have a . social . signification.’ (p12). The ‘birth of Latin literature’. In 240BCE, . Livius. Andronicus . stages one of his plays as part of the .