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literature list on: Humor

number of items: 585

#1
Aberwitzige Märchenwelten: Václav Vorlicek und der tschechische Kinderfilm. Hrsg. von Werner Strobel. - München: Kinderkino München 2001. (= Kinder- und Jugendfilm Korrespondenz: Sonderdruck.)
Index:
Vorlícek, Václav
Tschechien ~ Czech
Märchen ~ Fairy Tales
Jugend ~ Youth
Humor ~ Humor

#2
Adams, Max: Plan 10 from Outer Space. In: Cinefantastique 25. 1994. No. 5. [October] p. 45.
Description:
On Ted Harris’ parody of the Ed Wood movie.
Index:
Harris, Trent
Wood Jr., Edward D.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958)
Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995)
Humor ~ Humor

#3
Aitken, Tom: Sacrilege, satire or statement of faith? Ways of reading Luis Bunuel’s Viridiana. In: Through a Catholic lens: Religious perspectives of nineteen film directors from around the world. Edited by Peter Malone. - Lanham, Maryland: Sheed & Ward 2007. (= Communication, Culture, and Religion.) pp. 144 ff.
Index:
Buñuel, Luis
Viridiana (1961)
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#4
Albers, Margret: Nur über meine Leiche: Zombie, Truthahn & Mauerblümchen: Eine deutsche Fantasy-Kommödie mit Witz und Tricks. In: Moviestar 3. 1995. No. 15. [?D] pp. 18-21.
Description:
On the film by Rainer Matsutani.
Index:
Matsutani, Rainer
Nur über meine Leiche (1995)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Zombies ~ Zombies
Deutschland ~ Germany

#5
Anselmo-Sequeira, Diana: "The country bleeds with a laugh": Social criticism meets horror genre in José Mojica Marins’s At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul. In: Transnational horror across visual media: Fragmented bodies. Edited by Dana Och and Kirsten Strayer. - New York; London: Routledge 2013. (= Routledge research in cultural and media studies 55.) p. ?P.
Index:
Marins, José Mojica
À meia-noite levarei sua alma (1964)
Humor ~ Humor
Körper ~ Bodies
Horror ~ Horror

#6
Archer, Neil: Beyond a joke: Parody in English film and television comedy. - London; New York: I. B. Tauris 2017. (= Cinema and society.)
Description:
Discusses, among others, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Shaun of the Dead, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and several James Bond parodies.
Index:
Gilliam, Terry
Jones, Terry
Wright, Edgar
Jennings, Garth
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain
Fernsehen ~ Television

#7
Arnold, Frank: Für Fans: The Editor versucht sich an einer Parodie auf den Giallo-Film. In: EPD Film 34. 2017. No. 11. [November] p. 41.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Brooks, Adam
Kennedy, Matthew
Editor, The (2014)
Thriller ~ Thriller
Humor ~ Humor
DVD ~ DVD

#8
Arnold, Frank: Johnny English: Rowan Atkinson in einer 007-Parodie. In: EPD Film 20. 2003. No. 5. [May] pp. 48-49.
Index:
Howitt, Peter
Atkinson, Rowan
Johnny English (2003)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor

#9
Arnold, Frank: Neues vom Wixxer: Die zweite Edgar-Wallace-Parodie. In: EPD Film 24. 2007. No. 3. [March] p. 44.
Index:
Boss, Cyrill
Stennert, Philipp
Wallace, Edgar Richard Horatio E.
Neues vom Wixxer (2006)
Humor ~ Humor

#10
Arnold, Frank: Wortwitz. In: EPD Film 33. 2016. No. 10. [October] p. 41.
Description:
On a DVD edition of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Index:
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)
Humor ~ Humor
DVD ~ DVD

#11
Arnzen, Michael A.: Who’s laughing now? The postmodern splatter film. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 21. 1994. No. 4. [Winter] pp. 176-184.
Description:
On the history of splatter film, starting with George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.
Index:
Romero, George A.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Splatter-Filme ~ Splatter Films
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Humor ~ Humor
Splatter-Filme ~ Splatter Films

#12
Arroyo, José: Cameron and the comic. In: Sight and Sound NS 4. 1994. No. 9. [September] pp. 26-28.
Description:
On James Cameron’s True Lies.
Index:
Cameron, James
True Lies (1994)
Humor ~ Humor

#13
Arthurs, Jane / Barker, Martin / Harindranath, Ramaswami: The Crash controversy: Censorship campaigns and film reception. - London [et al.]: Wallflower Press 2001.
Reviews:
Bassett, Drew: [untitled] In: Medienwissenschaft 2002. No. 3. pp. 346-348.
Description:
Discusses, among others, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, Tinto Brass’s Caligula, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and Terry Jones’s Monty Python satire Life of Brian.
Index:
Cronenberg, David
Friedkin, William
Brass, Tinto
Scorsese, Martin
Jones, Terry
Crash (1996)
Exorcist, The (1973)
Caligula (1979)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Zensur ~ Censorship
Humor ~ Humor

#14
Aubron, Hervé: De la génération spontanée chez les clowns. In: Vertigo 1996. No. 14. [?D] pp. 159-165.
Description:
Compares the Frankenstein figure with the clown of the classical comedy.
Index:
Frankenstein (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Frankenstein ~ Frankenstein

#15
Austin, Guy: Body comedy and French cinema: Notes on Les visiteurs. In: Studies in French Cinema 6. 2006. No. 1. [?D] pp. 43-52.
Index:
Poiré, Jean-Marie
visiteurs, Les (1992)
Körper ~ Bodies
Humor ~ Humor
Frankreich ~ France

#16
Badley, Linda: Zombie splatter comedy from Dawn to Shaun: Cannibal carnivalesque. In: Zombie culture: Autopsies of the living dead. Edited by Shawn McIntosh and Marc Leverette. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Scarecrow Press 2008. p. ?P.
Index:
Romero, George A.
Wright, Edgar
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Splatter-Filme ~ Splatter Films
Karneval ~ Carnival
Kannibalismus ~ Cannibalism
Humor ~ Humor
Tod ~ Death
Zombies ~ Zombies

#17
Balducci, Anthony: The funny parts: A history of film comedy routines and gags. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland 2012.
Description:
Includes, among others, chapters on "spooky apparitions", "science and magic" and on "cannibals".
Index:
Wissenschaft ~ Science
Magie ~ Magic
Kannibalismus ~ Cannibalism
Humor ~ Humor
Zombies ~ Zombies

#18
Baltimore, Sam: "With my freeze ray, I will stop:" Carnival incompleteness in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Once More, With Feeling. In: Music & the Moving Image 7. 2014. No. 1. [Spring] pp. 24-39.
Index:
Bakhtin, Michail Michailowitsch
Lipsky, Jeff
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (TV)
Once More with Feeling (2009)
Karneval ~ Carnival
Humor ~ Humor

#19
Barbaro, Alvise: Frankenstein: Un mostro di celluloide tra horror e parodia. - Milano: Costa & Nolan 2006.
Description:
Discusses especially the novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the classical Frankenstein movie by James Whale and Mel Brooks’s parody Young Frankenstein.
Index:
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Whale, James
Brooks, Mel
Frankenstein - The Man Who Made the Monster (1931)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Frankenstein (Filmreihe)
Monster ~ Monster
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Frankenstein ~ Frankenstein
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (Literatur ~ Literature)

#20
Barbieri, Daniele: I non morti di china, tra parodia e sublime. In: Diversamente vivi: Zombi, vampiri, mummie, fantasmi. A cura di Giulia Carluccio e Peppino Ortoleva. - Torino: Museo nazionale del cinema, Fondazione Maria Adriana Prolo / Milano: Il castoro 2010. pp. 211 ff.
Index:
China ~ China
Tod ~ Death
Humor ~ Humor
Mumien ~ Mummies
Vampire ~ Vampires
Monster ~ Monster
Zombies ~ Zombies

#21
Bartlett, Myke: Danger Mouse and comedy. In: Screen Education 2015. No. 78. [Winter] pp. 28-31.
Description:
On the animated TV series.
Index:
Danger Mouse (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation ~ Animation

#22
Bassett, Drew: Delikatessen. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 444-447.
Index:
Caro, Marc
Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
Delicatessen (1990)
Humor ~ Humor

#23
Baudin, Henri: Le "ça" retrouvé: L’irréalisme burlesque dans le dessin animé. In: Humoresques 1995. No. 6. [?D] pp. 55-71.
Description:
On humor in cartoons and the comic strip.
Index:
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#24
Beard, Duncan Stuart: Social satire with a global reach: Ethnic stereotyping and cross-cultural conflicts in The Siinpsons. In: Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture. Edited by John Alberti. - Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press 2003. (= Contemporary approaches to film and television.) pp. 273-291.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#25
Beck, Martin: "A satanic action comedy": El Dia de la Bestia. In: Splatting Image 1996. No. 25. [March] pp. 56-57.
Index:
de la Iglesia, Alex
día de la bestia, El (1995)
Religion: Teufel ~ Religion: Devil
Humor ~ Humor
Action ~ Action

#26
Bedoya, Ricardo: Bond story. In: Hablemos de Cine 14. 1979. No. 70. [?D] pp. 15-16.
Description:
On slapstick elements in the James Bond films.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor

#27
Behrens, Ulrich: Eine Parodie auf Suspense-Filme? Familiengrab. In: F.LM - Texte zum Film. Online edition, July 2003.
Description:
On Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Family Plot (1975)
Thriller ~ Thriller
Humor ~ Humor

#28
Beier, Lars-Olav: Ritter des heiligen Ernstes. In: Der Spiegel 63. 2009. No. 23. [May 30] pp. 130-131.
Description:
On Christian Bale’s role as humorless redeemer in McG’s Terminator Salvation.
Index:
McGinty Nichol, Joseph [Pseudonym: McG]
Bale, Christian
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#29
Bendus, Maryana: The semantics and pragmatics of translating culture-bound references in film dubbing. - West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University, Ph.D. 2012. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 74. 2013. No. 3. (September).]
Description:
Examines the dubbing of five computer animated comedies from English into Ukrainian: Ratatouille, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After and Cars 2.
Index:
Bird, Brad
Pinkava, Jan
Saldanha, Carlos
Thurmeier, Mike
Deblois, Dean
Sanders, Chris
Mitchell, Mike
Lasseter, John
Lewis, Brad
Ratatouille (2007)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Shrek Forever After (2010)
Cars 2 (2011)
Ukraine ~ Ukraine
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#30
Berger, Doris: South Park - infusing reality with grotesque satire. In: Reflex 2012. No. 5. [?D] p. ?P.
Index:
South Park (TV)
Humor ~ Humor

#31
Berkey-Gerard, Mark: Woody Allen & the sacred conversation: If God has a sense of humor, who gets it? In: Other Side 33. 1997. No. 1. [January/February] pp. 60 ff.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#32
Berndt, Sven: Baddie-Ecke: Spaß Muschilie: Space Mutiny. In: Splatting Image 1997. No. 32. [December] p. 38.
Index:
Winters, David
Space Mutiny (1989)
Humor ~ Humor

#33
Bertolino, Marco / Cozzi, Emilio: L’uomo dai due volti / Situation comedy o melò? In: Cineforum 44. 2004. No. ?N(439). [November] pp. 33-35.
Description:
On Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2.
Index:
Raimi, Samuel M.
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Humor ~ Humor

#34
Biodrowski, Steve: Keaton times four equals four times the comedy. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 6. [December] p. 53.
Description:
On Harold Ramis’s Multiplicity.
Index:
Ramis, Harold
Keaton, Michael
Multiplicity (1996)
Humor ~ Humor

#35
Biodrowski, Steve: Lobster Man from Mars. In: Cinefantastique 21. 1990. No. 1. [July] p. 15.
Description:
On the science fiction parody starring Tony Curtis, a hommage to Orson Welles.
Index:
Curtis, Tony
Sheff, Stanley
Welles, Orson
Lobster Man from Mars (1990)
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#36
Biodrowski, Steve: Meet the Applegates. In: Cinefantastique 21. 1991. No. 4. [February] pp. 4, 60.
Description:
On the political science fiction satire by Michael Lehmann.
Index:
Lehmann, Michael
Meet the Applegates (1989)
Politik ~ Politics
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#37
Bishop, Ellen: Bakhtin, carnival and comedy: The new grotesque in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In: Film Criticism 15. 1990. No. 1. [?D] pp. 49-64.
Index:
Gilliam, Terry
Jones, Terry
Bakhtin, Michail Michailowitsch
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Karneval ~ Carnival
Humor ~ Humor

#38
Bishop, Ellen: Film frames: Cinematic literacy and satiric violence in contemporary movies. In: Post Script 16. 1997. No. 2. [Winter/Spring] pp. 18-34.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs and Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers.
Index:
Demme, Jonathan
Stone, Oliver
Silence of the Lambs, The (1990)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Humor ~ Humor
Gewalt ~ Violence

#39
Bishop, Kyle William: Vacationing in Zombieland: The classical functions of the modern zombie comedy. In: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22. 2011. No. 1. [?D] pp. 24-38.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Humor ~ Humor

#40
Boccolini, Rafaella: The uncomfortable relationship between science fiction and Italy: Film, humor, and gender. In: The Liverpool companion to world science fiction film. Edited by Sonja Fritzsche. - Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2014. (= Liverpool science fiction texts and studies.) p. ?P.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Italien ~ Italy
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#41
Boitani, Giacomo: Two and a half: Nostalgia, modern parody, and Fellini in Stardust Memories, Radio Days, and To Rome with Love. In: Referentiality and the films of Woody Allen. Edited by Klara Stephanie Szlezák and D. E. Wynter. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2015. p. ?P.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Fellini, Federico
Stardust Memories (1980)
Radio Days (1987)
To Rome with Love (2012)
Humor ~ Humor

#42
Bonnstetter, Beth E.: Of structures, stories, and Spaceballs: Parody as criticism of genre film and myth. In: Sith, slayers, stargates & cyborgs: Modern mythology in the new millennium. Edited by John Perlich and David Whitt. - New York; Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; Bern; Frankfurt/M.; Berlin; Brussels; Vienna; Oxford: Lang 2008. (= Popular culture and everyday life 19.) pp. 190 ff.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
Spaceballs (1987)
Humor ~ Humor
Mythologie ~ Mythology
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#43
Bonnstetter, Beth / Ott, Brian L.: "We’re at now, now": Spaceballs as parodic tourism. In: Southern Communication Journal 72. 2007. No. 3. [?D] pp. 309-327.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
Spaceballs (1987)
Humor ~ Humor

#44
Booker, M. Keith: Capitalism, camp, and cult SF: Space Truckers as satire. In: Science fiction double feature: The science fiction film as cult text. Edited by J. P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay. - Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2015. (= Liverpool science fiction texts and studies 52.) p. ?P.
Index:
Gordon, Stuart
Space Truckers (1996)
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#45
Borcholte, Andreas: "Humor, um zu überleben". In: Der Spiegel 68. 2014. No. 36. [September 1] pp. 128-129.
Description:
Interview with David Cronenberg on Maps to the Stars.
Index:
Cronenberg, David
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Humor ~ Humor

#46
Bosley, Rachel K.: Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979). In: American Cinematographer. Online edition, April 2008.
Description:
On a DVD edition of Monty Python’s satirical Jesus film.
Index:
Jones, Terry
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Religion ~ Religion
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Humor ~ Humor
DVD ~ DVD

#47
Bounds, J. Dennis / Lindvall, Chris / Lindvall, Terry: Divine film comedies: Biblical narratives, film sub-genres, and the comic spirit. - Abingdon; New York: Routledge 2016. (= Routledge studies in religion and film.)
Index:
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#48
Bounds, J. Dennis / Lindvall, Chris / Lindvall, Terry: Divine film comedies: Biblical narratives, film sub-genres, and the comic spirit. - ?O: Routledge 2016. (= Routledge Studies in Religion and Film.)
Reviews:
Detweiler, Craig: [untitled.] In: Journal of Religion and Film 21. 2017. No. 1. [April] p. ?P.
Index:
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#49
Boutilier, JamesC. / Scapperotti, Dan: Xena Warrior Princess. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 5. [May] pp. 32-47.
Description:
Articles on the TV series. Discusses, among others, the work of actress Lucy Lawless and Alexandra Tydings, producer Rob Tapert and R. J. Stewart, the special effects by Flat Earth Productions plus the work of Liz Friedman. Discusses also the humoristic aspects of the series.
Index:
Tapert, Rob
Lawless, Lucy
Tydings, Alexandra
Tapert, Rob
Stewart, R. J.
Friedman, Liz
Xena: Warrior Princess (TV)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#50
Brashinsky, Michael: Closely watched drains: Notes by a dilettante on the Soviet absurdist film. In: Inside soviet film satire: Laughter with a lash. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. (= Cambridge Studies in Film.) pp. 58-62.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken) ~ USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

#51
Bresman, Jonathan: Mad about Star Wars. - New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007.
Description:
On Sta Wars parodies.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Wahnsinn ~ Madness
Humor ~ Humor

#52
Briggs, Joe Bob: Joe Bob goes to the drive-in. - London: Penguin Books 1989.
Description:
Humoristic stuff on the horror film.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#53
Briggs, Joe Bob: Joe Bob goes to the drive-in. Introduction by Stephen King. - New York: Delacorte Press 1987.
Description:
Humoristic stuff on the horror film.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#54
British comedy cinema. Edited by I. Q. Hunter and Laraine Porter. - Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge 2012. (= British popular cinema.)
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#55
British TV comedies: Cultural concepts, contexts and controversies. Edited by Jürgen Kamm. - Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#56
Britton, A.: Gary Grant: Comedy and male desire. In: Cineaction 1986. No. 7. [Winter] pp. 36-51.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Cary Grant’s role in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest.
Index:
Grant, Cary
Hitchcock, Alfred
North by Northwest (1959)
Männer ~ Men
Humor ~ Humor

#57
Brock, Alexander: "The struggle of class against class is a what struggle?": Monty Python’s Flying Circus and its politics. In: British TV comedies: Cultural concepts, contexts and controversies. Edited by Jürgen Kamm. - Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016. pp. 51-65.
Index:
MacNaughton, Ian
Davies, John Howard
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV)
Politik ~ Politics
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#58
Brock, Alexander: Blackadder, Monty Python und Red Dwarf: Eine linguistische Untersuchung britischer Fernsehkomödien. - Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, Habilitationsschrift 2004.
Index:
Red Dwarf (TV)
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain
Fernsehen ~ Television

#59
Brock, Alexander: Blackadder, Monty Python und Red Dwarf: Eine linguistische Untersuchung britischer Fernsehkomödien. - Tübingen: Stauffenburg-Verlag 2003. (= Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, ZAA studies 19.)
Reviews:
Hempelmann, Christian: [untitled.] In: Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 21. 2008. No. 4. [?D] pp. 455-473.
Kallwies, Nicole: [untitled.] In: Medienwissenschaft 2006. No. 4. pp. 476-477.
Index:
Red Dwarf (TV)
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain
Fernsehen ~ Television

#60
Broder, Henryk M.: Der Jud tut gut. In: Der Spiegel 61. 2007. No. 2. [January 8] p. 214.
Description:
On Dani Levy’s Nazi satire Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler.
Index:
Levy, Dani
Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (2006)
Humor ~ Humor
Faschismus ~ Fascism

#61
Broderick, Mick: Releasing the hounds: The Simpsons as antinuclear satire. In: Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture. Edited by John Alberti. - Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press 2003. (= Contemporary approaches to film and television.) pp. 244-272.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Atom ~ Nuclear
Fernsehen ~ Television

#62
Brophy, Philip: Auralis sexualis: How cartoons conduct Paraphilia. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#63
Brophy, Philip: Perverse comedies. In: Restuff 1988. No. 1. [?D] pp. 41-42.
Description:
On horror films shown on TV and on video.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Video ~ Video
Horror ~ Horror
Fernsehen ~ Television

#64
Brunet, Robin: Flesh Gordon With the Cosmic Cheerleaders: A raunchy, R-rated follow-up to the legendary porno film parody. In: Cinefantastique 19. 1989. No. 5. [July] pp. 13, 61.
Index:
Ziehm, Howard
Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Humor ~ Humor

#65
Brunet, Robin: Stay Tuned. In: Cinefantastique 23. 1992. No. 1. [August] pp. 14-15.
Description:
On Peter Hyams’s fantasy comedy starring John Ritter and Pam Dawber.
Index:
Hyams, Peter
Ritter, John
Dawber, Pam
Stay Tuned (1992)
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy

#66
Bryant, Brantley L.: One does not simply laugh in Middle-earth: Sacrificing humor in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. In: Postmedieval 5. 2014. No. 2. [?D] pp. 184-198.
Index:
Jackson, Peter
Lord of the Rings (Filmreihe)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#67
Buck, Caroline M.: Laugh and live: Was bleibt vom ersten Superstar des amerikanischen Kinos? In: Blimp 1999. No. 40. [?D] pp. 60-66.
Description:
On Douglas Fairbanks. Includes a filmography.
Index:
Fairbanks Sen., Douglas
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor

#68
Buder, Bernd: Destere. In: Film-Dienst 62. 2009. No. 4. [February 12] p. 19.
Description:
On the Turkish Saw parody.
Index:
Uygun, Ahmet T.
Yurt, Gürcan
Destere (2008)
Saw (Filmreihe)
Türkei ~ Turkey (Country)
Humor ~ Humor

#69
Buder, Bernd: DKAO - Türken im Weltall. In: Film-Dienst 60. 2007. No. 1. [January 4] p. 31.
Description:
On Turkish SF comedy Dünyayi kurtaran adamin oglu by Kartal Tibet.
Index:
Tibet, Kartal
Dünyayi kurtaran adamin oglu (2006)
Türkei ~ Turkey (Country)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor

#70
Büllmann, Bert: "Verständnis, Intelligenz und Humor". In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1993. No. 10(185). [?D] pp. 82-83.
Description:
Interview with Harrison Ford on his film roles.
Index:
Ford, Harrison
Humor ~ Humor

#71
Büllmann, Bert: Trickreich und witzig - Hexerei mit Bette Midler: Hocus Pocus. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1994. No. 1(188). [?D] pp. 100-103.
Index:
Ortega, Kenny
Midler, Bette
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Humor ~ Humor
Religion: Hexen ~ Religion: Witches

#72
Buss, Esther: Jacky im Königreich der Frauen: Gewitzte Satire auf die Geschlechterverhältnisse. In: Film-Dienst 68. 2015. No. 4. [February 19] p. 41.
Description:
On Riad Sattouf’s Jacky au royaume des filles.
Index:
Sattouf, Riad
Jacky au royaume des filles (2014)
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Humor ~ Humor

#73
Butte, George: Theatricality and the comedy of the mutual gaze in Hitchcock’s Cary Grant films. In: Hitchcock Annual 1997. pp. 114-136.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Grant, Cary
North by Northwest (1959)
Theater ~ Theatre
Humor ~ Humor

#74
Buttgereit, Jörg: Team America: World Police: Eine Politsatire von den South Park-Machern. In: EPD Film 22. 2005. No. 1. [January] pp. 42-43.
Index:
Parker, Trey
Team America: World Police (2004)
South Park (TV)
Humor ~ Humor

#75
Cammuso, Frank / Seely, Hart: Oldfinger. In: The New Yorker 1993. No. ?N. [June 21] p. 102.
Description:
Humoristic stuff on the James Bond films.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor

#76
Caprarella, Jennifer: Jenseits der Medienkritik: Wie Michael Hancke mit seiner Genreparodie Funny Games U.S. (2008) unser Sehverhalten bloßstellt. In: Dawn of an evil millennium: Horror/Kultur im neuen Jahrtausend. Hrsg. von Jörg van Bebber. - Darmstadt: Büchner-Verlag 2011. pp. 455 ff.
Index:
Haneke, Michael
Funny Games U.S. (2007)
Humor ~ Humor
Böse, Das ~ Evil, The
Horror ~ Horror

#77
Cardullo, Bert: Der letzte Mann gets the last laugh: F. W. Murnau’s comic vision. In: Post Script 1. 1981. No. 1. [?D] pp. 41-44.
Index:
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
letzte Mann, Der (1924)
Humor ~ Humor

#78
Carew, Anthony: Bloody good comedy: What We Do in the Shadows. In: Metro 2015. No. 183. [Summer] pp. 18-23.
Index:
Clement, Jemaine
Waititi, Taika
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Humor ~ Humor
Gute, Das ~ Good
Blut ~ Blood
Vampire ~ Vampires

#79
Carlson, Marvin: Deathtraps: The postmodern comedy thriller. - Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press 1993.
Index:
Thriller ~ Thriller
Humor ~ Humor
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Tod ~ Death

#80
Carmichael, Deb: Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948): Laughing in the face of an uncertain future. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Barton, Charles T.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#81
Carroll, Noël: Horror and humor. In: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57. 1999. No. 2. [Spring] pp. 145-160.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#82
Carroll, Noël: What Mr. Creosote knows about laughter. In: Monty Python and philosophy: Nudge nudge, think think! Edited by Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch. - Chicago, Illinois: Open Court 2006. (= Popular culture and philosophy 19.) pp. 25-35.
Description:
On The Meaning of Life.
Index:
Gilliam, Terry
Jones, Terry
Monty Python’s Meaning of Life (1983)
Humor ~ Humor
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Monty Python ~ Monty Python

#83
Cassity, Kathleen J.: Not alone: "Ironic faith", the comic worldview, and process theology in Monty Python’s Life of Brian. In: Journal of Religion and Film 20. 2016. No. 3. [October] pp. 1-23.
Index:
Jones, Terry
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#84
César Morales, Eric: Beyond fear in The Book of Life: Discussions on children, death, and Latinidad. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Hartley, Hal
Book of Life, The (1998)
Tod ~ Death
Lateinamerika ~ Latin America
Jugend ~ Youth
Horror ~ Horror
Angst ~ Fear
Humor ~ Humor

#85
Cieply, Michael: A laugh affair. In: Sunday Morning Post [HK], May 17, 2009. Section Sight & Sound, p. 8.
Description:
On Shawn Levy’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Index:
Levy, Shawn
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Humor ~ Humor

#86
Ciment, Gilles: France: L’école humoristique. In: Positif 1986. No. 305/306. [?D] pp. 67-71.
Description:
On the comic strip artists Martine Veyron, Patrice Leconte, Marcel Gotlib, Pétillon and Régis Franc.
Index:
Veyron, Martine
Leconte, Patrice
Gotlib, Marcel
Franc, Régis
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Humor ~ Humor
Frankreich ~ France
Animation ~ Animation

#87
Clarke, Frederick S.: Beetlejuice: Effects-laden, off-the-wall supernatural comedy could make a name for director Tim Burton. In: Cinefantastique 18. 1988. No. 2/3. [March] pp. 21, 124.
Index:
Burton, Tim
Beetlejuice (1988)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Humor ~ Humor
Wunder ~ Miracles

#88
Coburn, Sarah Elizabeth: The invasion of the comedy snatchers: Fantasy sitcoms and cultural criticism. - Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University, Ph.D. 1991. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International 52. 1992. No. 3759a.]
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy

#89
Codelli, Lorenzo: Eloge de la folie. In: Positif 1999. No. 460. [June] pp. 95-96.
Description:
On filmic parodies from Italy. Discusses, among others, the films by Mario Bava and the "Spaghetti western".
Index:
Bava, Mario
Western-Filme ~ Western Films
Wahnsinn ~ Madness
Italien ~ Italy
Humor ~ Humor

#90
Collins, Kris: White-washing the black-a-moor: Othello, negro minstrelsy and parodies of blackness. In: Journal of American Culture 19. 1996. No. 3. [?D] pp. 97-101.
Description:
Discusses also the film versions of the Shakespeare drama.
Index:
Shakespeare, William
Humor ~ Humor
Tragedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice, The (Literatur ~ Literature)

#91
Comedy: A geographic and historical guide. Edited by Maurice Charney. - Westport, Connecticut: Praeger 2005.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor

#92
Comedy corpses. In: Film Review 2005. No. 662 [October] pp. 76-78.
Description:
On movies about undead.
Index:
Körper ~ Bodies
Humor ~ Humor
Geister ~ Ghosts
Horror ~ Horror

#93
Comer, Brooke: New York’s Sync Sound makes Beavis and Butt-head laugh. In: American Cinematographer 75. 1994. No. 9. [September] pp. 95-96.
Description:
On the making of the MTV animation clips with the Beavis and Butt-Head figures.
Index:
Beavis and Butt-Head (Filmreihe)
Animation ~ Animation
Musik ~ Music
Sync Sound [Firma] ~ Sync Sound [Company]
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Humor ~ Humor
MTV ~ MTV
Beavis and Butt-Head ~ Beavis and Butt-Head
New York ~ New York

#94
Commerford, M.: Splatter slapstick. In: Filmhäftet ?G 1991. No. 73/74. [?D] pp. 145-151.
Description:
On splatter parodies.
Index:
Splatter-Filme ~ Splatter Films
Humor ~ Humor
Splatter-Filme ~ Splatter Films

#95
Conger, Sydney M. / Welsch, R.: The comic and the grotesque in James Whale’s Frankenstein films. In: Planks of reason: Essays on the horror film. Edited by Garry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett. Revised edition. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Scarecrow Press 2004. pp. 303 ff.
Index:
Whale, James
Frankenstein (Filmreihe)
Frankenstein - The Man Who Made the Monster (1931)
Bride of Frankenstein, The (1935)
Humor ~ Humor
Frankenstein ~ Frankenstein
Horror ~ Horror

#96
Conger, Syndy M. / Welsch, Janice R.: The comic and the grotesque in James Whale’s Frankenstein films. In: Planks of reason: Essays on the horror film. Edited by Garry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett. - Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow 1984. pp. 290-306.
Index:
Whale, James
Frankenstein (Filmreihe)
Frankenstein - The Man Who Made the Monster (1931)
Bride of Frankenstein, The (1935)
Humor ~ Humor
Frankenstein ~ Frankenstein
Horror ~ Horror

#97
Cooper, B. Lee: Terror translated into comedy: The popular music metamorphosis of film and television horror, 1956-1991. In: Journal of American Culture 20. 1997. No. 3. [Fall] pp. 31-42.
Index:
Musik ~ Music
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Fernsehen ~ Television

#98
Cornea, Christine: "So bad it’s good": Critical humor in science fiction cinema. In: The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor

#99
Coughlin, James T. / Mank, Gregory William / Frye, Dwight D.: Dwight Frye’s last laugh: An unauthorized biography. - Baltimore, Maryland: Midnight Marquee Press 1997.
Reviews:
Turner, George: [untitled] In: American Cinematographer 79. 1998. No. 5. [May] pp. 117-118.
Description:
On the actor.
Index:
Frye, Dwight
Humor ~ Humor

#100
Coughlin, Paul: Blue Velvet: Postmodern parody and the subversion of conservative frameworks. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 31. 2003. No. 4. [October] pp. 304-311.
Index:
Lynch, David
Blue Velvet (1986)
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Humor ~ Humor

#101
Counts, Kyle: Teen Woolf 2: Atlantic again plays werewolves for laughs - all the way to the bank. In: Cinefantastique 18. 1987. No. 1. [December] p. 9.
Index:
Leitch, Christopher
Teen Wolf II (1987)
Wölfe ~ Wolves
Humor ~ Humor

#102
Cox, Jordan: Suffering as a form of pleasure: An exploration of black humor in Un chien andalou. In: Film Matters 5. 2014. No. 3. [Winter] pp. 14-18.
Index:
Buñuel, Luis
chien andalou, Un (1928)
Humor ~ Humor
Surrealismus ~ Surrealism

#103
Crafton, Don: Infectious laughter: Cartoons’ cure for the Depression. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#104
Crafton, Donald: The view from termite terrace: Caricatures and parody in Warner Bros. animation. In: Film History 5. 1993. No. 2. pp. 204-230.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Warner Bros. ~ Warner Bros.
Animation ~ Animation

#105
Crawford, A.: Postmodern satire in American prime-time animation. - Coleraine, Northern Ireland: University of Ulster, Ph.D. 2009. [Abstract in: Index to Theses with Abstracts 59-11712.]
Description:
On American animated sitcoms. Discusses, among others, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, American Dad!, Beavis and Butt-Head, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Invader ZIM, The Venture Bros. and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Family Guy (TV)
South Park (TV)
King of the Hill (TV)
American Dad! (TV)
Beavis and Butt-Head (TV)
Ren and Stimpy Show, The (TV)
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (TV)
Invader ZIM (TV)
Venture Bros., The (TV)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force / Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 (TV)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#106
Crisafulli, Chuck: CGI cartoon comedy: The Mask. In: Cinefantastique 25. 1994. No. 4. [August] pp. 8-11.
Description:
On the film by Charles Russell starring Jim Carrey in the leading role.
Index:
Russell, Charles
Carrey, Jim
Mask, The (1994)
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Humor ~ Humor
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons

#107
Crome, Andrew: Left behind or left below? Parodies of Christian end-times fiction in American popular culture. In: Journal of American Culture 38. 2015. No. 4. [?D] pp. 386-400.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#108
Crowdus, Gary: The master of laugh-out-loud film criticism. In: Cineaste 16. 1988. No. 4. [?D] pp. 38-43.
Description:
Film critic John Bloom (aka Bob Briggs) on the splatter and exploitation film.
Index:
Exploitation ~ Exploitation
Splatter-Filme ~ Splatter Films
Humor ~ Humor
Exploitation ~ Exploitation

#109
Cunningham, Lisa: Queerness and the undead female monster. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Monster ~ Monster
Horror ~ Horror
Frauen ~ Women
Humor ~ Humor

#110
Curnutte, Rick: Divine comedienne: Renee Maria Falconetti and La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc. In: The Film Journal [Ohio] 2003. No. 4. [January p. ?P.
Index:
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Falconetti, Renee Maria
Passion de Jean d’Arc, La (1928)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#111
Curtis, David Valleau / Erion, Gerald J.: South Park and the open society: Defending democracy through satire. In: South Park and philosophy: You know, I learned something today. Edited by Robert Arp. - Oxford; Malden, Massachussetts: Blackwell 2007. (= Blackwell philosophy and popculture.) p. ?P.
Index:
South Park (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Philosophie ~ Philosophy

#112
Curtis, Scott: Tex Avery’s prison house of animation, or humor and boredom in studio cartoons. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Avery, Tex
Gefängnis ~ Prison
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#113
D’Arcens, Louise: Comic medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages. - Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer 2014.
Reviews:
Trokhimenko, Olga V.: [untitled.] In: English Studies in Canada 40. 2014. No. 4. [?D] pp. 142-144.
Index:
Geschichte: Mittelalter ~ History: Middle Ages
Humor ~ Humor

#114
Dalton, Madeline / MacKenzie, Todd / Purvis, Lisa A. / Sutherland, Lisa A.: Prevalence of food and beverage brands in movies: 1996 - 2005. In: Pediatrics 125. 2010. No. 3. [March] pp. 468-474.
Description:
Examines, among others, comedies, action-adventure and horror films.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure
Nahrung ~ Food

#115
Dancer, Greg: Film style and performance: Comedy and Kung Fu from Hong Kong. In: Asian Cinema 10. 1998. No. 1. [Fall] pp. 42-57.
Description:
Includes a bibliography.
Index:
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Humor ~ Humor
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#116
Day, David D.: Monty Python and the medieval other. In: Cinema Arthuriana: Essays on Arthurian film. Edited by Kevin J. Harty. - New York: Garland Publishing 1991. (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1426.) pp. 83-92.
Description:
On the satirical portrayal of the middle ages in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Index:
Gilliam, Terry
Jones, Terry
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Humor ~ Humor
Geschichte: Mittelalter ~ History: Middle Ages
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Artus-Sage ~ Arthurian Legend

#117
de Seife, Ethan: Tish-Tash in cartoonland. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#118
De Rentiis, Dina: Believing and laughing - Medievalism as critique of idealism and of ideology in Robert Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In: Healers and redeemers: The reception and transformation of their medieval and late antique representations in literature, film and music. Edited by Dina De Rentiis and Christoph Houswitschka. - Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2010. pp. 133 ff.
Index:
Bresson, Robert
Gilliam, Terry
Jones, Terry
Lancelot du Lac (1973)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Politik ~ Politics
Musik ~ Music
Literatur ~ Literature
Humor ~ Humor
Geschichte: Mittelalter ~ History: Middle Ages
Religion ~ Religion

#119
Decker, Christof: "Irony is a cheap shot": Robert Altman, Luis Buñuel, and the maneuvers of comic deconstruction. In: Amerikastudien 52. 2007. No. 1. [?D] pp. 63-79.
Index:
Altman, Robert
Buñuel, Luis
Humor ~ Humor
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics

#120
Decker, Lindsey: British cinema is undead: American horror, British comedy and generic hybridity in Shaun of the Dead. In: Transnational Cinemas 7. 2016. No. 1. [May] pp. 67-81.
Index:
Wright, Edgar
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain
Zombies ~ Zombies

#121
Degler, Frank: Affirmative humour in Bully Herbig’s parody of Star Wars / Star Trek: (T)Raumschiff Surprise. In: Gender and laughter: Comic affirmation and subversion in traditional and modern media. Edited by Gaby Pailer [et al.]. - Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi 2009. (= Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 70.) pp. 297-312.
Index:
Herbig, Michael
Lucas, George
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004)
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#122
Deist, Thomas: Des Meisters Wahnwitz. In: Science Fiction Times 34. 1992. No. 1. [January] pp. 23-24.
Description:
On Wes Craven’s The People under the Stairs.
Index:
Craven, Wes
People under the Stairs, The (1991)
Humor ~ Humor

#123
Dervin, Daniel: Primal conditions and conventions: The genre of comedy and science fiction. In: Film Psychology Review 4. 1980. No. 1. [?D] pp. 115-147.
Index:
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor

#124
Desalm, Brigitte: Prominentenwahn als der neuartige Wahnsinn des Westens: Natural Born Killers von Oliver Stone - Eine Mediensatire, eine Show, eine produktive Zumutung. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. 29./30. Oktober 1994. p. ?P.
Index:
Stone, Oliver
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Humor ~ Humor
Wahnsinn ~ Madness

#125
Díaz-zambrana, Rosana: Zombis y chupanalgas en la Isla del Espanto: La comedia de horror en el cine de culto puertorriqueño. In: Horrofílmico: Aproximaciones al cine de terror en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Ed. Rosana Díaz-Zambrana y Patricia Tomé. - San Juan: Isla Negra Editores 2012. (= Colección Visiones y cegueras.) p. ?P.
Index:
Puerto Rico ~ Puerto Rico
Humor ~ Humor
Lateinamerika ~ Latin America
Horror ~ Horror

#126
Dick, Rainer: Das Wirtshaus im Spessart. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 285-288.
Index:
Hoffmann, Kurt
Wirtshaus im Spessart (1957/1958)
Humor ~ Humor

#127
Dipaolo, Marc Edward: Political satire and British-American relations in five decades of Doctor Who. In: Journal of Popular Culture 43. 2010. No. 5. [October] pp. 964-987.
Index:
Doctor Who (TV)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Politik ~ Politics
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#128
Dittgen, Andrea: Ein Strich, und die Welt ist aus den Fugen: Minimalistisch, witzig, philosophisch: Der Animationsfilmer Raimund Krumme. In: Film-Dienst 54. 2002. No. 26. [December 18] pp. 10-12.
Index:
Krumme, Raimund
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#129
Dittgen, Andrea: Humorvolle Grausamkeiten: Daniel Nocke, Deutschlands vielseitigster Animationsfilmer. In: Film-Dienst 63. 2010. No. 14. [July 8] pp. 9-11.
Index:
Nocke, Daniel
Humor ~ Humor
Gewalt ~ Violence
Deutschland ~ Germany
Animation ~ Animation

#130
Divine, Christian: Southern fried satire. In: Creative Screenwriting 8. 2001. No. 4. [?D] pp. 35-38.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Humor ~ Humor

#131
Dockhorn, Katharina: "Über einen Arthouse-Film beschwert sich ja auch keiner". In: EPD Film 21. 2004. No. 9. [September] p. 35.
Description:
Interview with Michael "Bully" Herbig on his Star Trek parody (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1.
Index:
Herbig, Michael
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004)
Star Trek ~ Star Trek
Humor ~ Humor

#132
Doherty, Thomas: Scary Movie: Axploitation parody has laughs worthy of a rental. In: Cinefantastique 32. 2001. No. 6. [February] p. 62.
Index:
Wayans, Keenen Ivory
Scary Movie (2000)
Humor ~ Humor
Exploitation ~ Exploitation

#133
Dreßler, J.: Streichholzballade - ein satirischer Puppentrickfilm der DEFA. In: Neue Filmwelt ?G. 1953. No. 12. [?D] p. ?P.
Index:
Hempel, Jan
Streichholzballade (1953)
Humor ~ Humor
DEFA ~ DEFA
Animation: Puppen ~ Animation: Puppets
Animation ~ Animation

#134
Eby, Douglas: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: An all-star cast brings a little modern magic to Shakespeare’s fantasy-comedy. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 6. [June] pp. 20-21.
Index:
Hoffman, Michael
Shakespeare, William
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999)
Magie ~ Magic
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Midsummer Nights Dream, A (Literatur ~ Literature)

#135
Eby, Douglas: What Planet Are You From?: Gary Shandling on writing and starring-in his SF comedy. In: Cinefantastique 31. 2000. No. 11. [April] pp. 6-7.
Index:
Nichols, Mike
Shandling, Gary
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor

#136
Edminster, R. William / Halsall, Jane: Visual media for teens: Creating and using a teen-centered film collection. - Santa Barbara, California: Libraries Unlimited 2009. (= Libraries Unlimited professional guides for young adult librarians.)
Description:
A list of recomended films for various topics. Includes chapters on heroes and on humor and horror in film.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Helden ~ Heros

#137
Egea, Juan F.: Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad: Spanishness, dark comedy and horror. In: Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre. Edited by Jay Beck and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega. - Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press / Palgrave Macmillan 2008. p. ?P.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Spanien ~ Spain

#138
Eisenberg, Adam: Ghostbusters II for laughs & liberty. In: American Cinematographer 70. 1989. No. 8. [August] pp. 58-68.
Index:
Reitman, Ivan
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Humor ~ Humor

#139
Eitzen, Dirk: The nature of film comedy, or Why is Shaun of the Dead funny. In: Projections 6. 2012. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 1-17.
Index:
Wright, Edgar
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Humor ~ Humor

#140
Elliott, Kamilla: Gothic - film - parody. In: Adaptation 1. 2008. No. 1. [March] pp. 24-43.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#141
Elliott, Kamilla: Gothic-film-parody. In: The Routledge companion to Gothic. Edited by Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy. - London; New York: Routledge 2007. p. ?P.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#142
Ellis, David: Black comedy in Shakespeare. In: Essays in Criticism 51. 2001. No. 4. [?D] pp. 385-403.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the films of Quentin Tarantino.
Index:
Shakespeare, William
Tarantino, Quentin
Humor ~ Humor

#143
Ellis, Iain: Humorists vs. religion: Critical voices from Mark Twain to Neil deGrasse Tyson. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 2018.
Description:
Includes, among others, chapters on The Simpsons and South Park.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
South Park (TV)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#144
Engelhardt, Claudia: Das Wunder von Mailand. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 254-257.
Description:
On Vittorio de Sica’s Miracolo a Milano.
Index:
de Sica, Vittorio
Miracolo a Milano (1950)
Humor ~ Humor

#145
Erens, P.: You could die laughing: Jewish humor and film. In: East-West Film Journal 2. 1987. No. 1. [December] pp. 50-62.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Mel Brooks’s History of the World: Part I.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Religion: Juden ~ Religion: Jews
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#146
Ernst, Marlene: Merry Men in Sherwood: Mittelalterrezeption und Mittelalterparodie in der Fernsehserie Robin Hood (2006-2009). In: Alles heldenhaft, grausam und schmutzig? Mittelalterrezeption in der Populärkultur. Hrsg. von Christian Rohr. - Wien; Zürich; Berlin; Münster: Lit 2011. (= Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft, Geschichte 7.) pp. 145 ff.
Index:
Robin Hood (TV)
Wald ~ Wood
Humor ~ Humor
Helden ~ Heros
Gewalt ~ Violence
Fernsehen ~ Television
Geschichte: Mittelalter ~ History: Middle Ages

#147
Estes, Leila / Kelp-Stebbins, Katherine: Undead in Suburbia: Teaching children to love thy neighbor, fangs and all. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Jugend ~ Youth
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#148
Etten, Manfred: Mystik & Slapstick: Vier Filme, ein Werk: Emir Kusturica. In: Film-Dienst 46. 1993. No. 10. [May 11] pp. 4-8.
Index:
Kusturica, Emir
Religion: Mystik ~ Religion: Mysticism
Humor ~ Humor

#149
Fay, Jennifer: Becoming democratic: Satire, satiety, and the founding of West Germany. In: Film History 18. 2006. No. 1. pp. 6-20.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Helmut Käutner’s Der Apfel ist ab.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Deutschland ~ Germany

#150
Fell, Ken: Dying for a laugh: Disaster movies and the camp imagination. - Middleton, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 2005.
Reviews:
Foster, Erin: [untitled] In: Film Criticism 30. 2006. No. 3. [Spring] pp. 72-74.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Joe Dante’s Gremlins, Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters, Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! and Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow.
Index:
Dante, Joe
Reitman, Ivan
Burton, Tim
Emmerich, Roland
Gremlins (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)
Sexualität: Homosexualität ~ Sexuality: Homosexuality
Katastrophen ~ Disasters
Humor ~ Humor

#151
Feltmate, David: It’s funny because it’s true? The Simpsons, satire and the significance of religious humor in popular culture. In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81. 2013. No. 1. [?D] pp. 222-248.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#152
Feltmate, David: The humorous reproduction of religious prejudice: "Cults" and religious humour in The Simpsons, South Park, and King of the Hill. In: Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 24. 2012. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 201-216.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
South Park (TV)
King of the Hill (TV)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#153
Ferreri, Michel: Au-delà du plaisir du film: Le spectateur-enfant. In: Cinéma et psychoanalyse. Reuni par Alain Dhote. (= Cinémaction 1989. No. 50. [January]) pp. 53-57.
Description:
On humoristic elements in the animation film, discusses, anong others, the films of Tex Avery and the Tom & Jerry movies.
Index:
Avery, Tex
Tom & Jerry ~ Tom & Jerry
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Animation ~ Animation
Humor ~ Humor

#154
Figlerowicz, Marta: Comedy of abandon: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. In: Film Quarterly 65. 2012. No. 4. [Summer] p. ?P.
Index:
von Trier, Lars
Melancholia (2011)
Humor ~ Humor

#155
Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005.
Reviews:
Horlacher, Stefan: [untitled.] In: Medienwissenschaft 2006. No. 3. pp. 326-329.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor

#156
Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor

#157
Finler, Joel Waldo: All-time movie favorites: Comedies, thrillers, epics, musicals, love storys, westerns, war films and others. - London: Sundial Books 1975.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Western-Filme ~ Western Films
Thriller ~ Thriller
Musik ~ Music
Krieg ~ War

#158
Fischer, Dennis: The Specials: Slice of life super-hero comedies now a trend. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 8. [October] p. 58.
Index:
Mazin, Craig
Specials, The (2000)
Humor ~ Humor
Helden ~ Heros

#159
Flaig, Paul Frederick: Weimar slapstick: American eccentrics, German grotesques. - Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, Ph.D. 2013. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 74. 2014. No. 11. (May) p. ?P.]
Description:
Examins the influence of American slapstick - both live-action and animated - on Weimar culture including literature and film.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Literatur ~ Literature
Humor ~ Humor
Deutschland ~ Germany
Animation ~ Animation

#160
Flasher, John / Radcliff-Umstead, Douglas: The derisive humor of Luis Buñuel. In: Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 7. 1981. No. ?N. [?D] pp. 7-17.
Index:
Buñuel, Luis
Humor ~ Humor

#161
Fordham, Joe: The Mystery Men! Universal’s effects-laden superhero parody is based on an obscure comic. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 7. [August] pp. 12-13.
Index:
Usher, Kinka
Mystery Men (1999)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Universal [Firma] ~ Universal [Company]
Humor ~ Humor
Helden ~ Heros
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics

#162
Fowkes, Katherine A.: "Your meaning or your life": Maochistic spirits in Ghost and other comedy romance films. - Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D 1993. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 54. 1994. No. 8. (February) p. 2773A.]
Index:
Zucker, Jerry
Ghost (1990)
Humor ~ Humor

#163
Fowkes, Katherine A.: Giving up the ghost: spirits, ghosts, and angels in mainstream comedy films. - Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press 1998.
Reviews:
Brown, Matthew P.: [untitled] In: Style 34. 2000. No. 2. [?D] pp. 337-342.
Ness, Richard: Reviews In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 17. 2000. No. 4. [November] pp. 383-385.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Geister ~ Ghosts
Religion: Engel ~ Religion: Angels

#164
Fowkes, Katherine A.: The bawdy body in two comedy ghost films: Topper and Beetlejuice. In: Cinematic ghosts: Haunting and spectrality from silent cinema to the digital era. Edited by Murray Leeder. - London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2015. p. ?P.
Index:
McLeod, Norman Z.
Burton, Tim
Topper (1937)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Körper ~ Bodies
Humor ~ Humor
Geister ~ Ghosts

#165
Fraisse, Philippe: Tant qu’il y aura des clowns: Courte introduction au rire fellinien, présenté comme un effet de la rêverie. In: Positif 2003. No. 507. [May] pp. 96-99.
Description:
On basic motifs in the films of Federico Fellini, especially on humoristic elements and the importance of dreams.
Index:
Fellini, Federico
Traum ~ Dreams
Humor ~ Humor

#166
Franz, Katja: Men in Black. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 485-487.
Index:
Sonnenfeld, Barry
Men in Black (1997)
Humor ~ Humor

#167
French, Todd: Lucky Stiff: Anthony Perkins directs cannibalism themed comedy. In: Cinefantastique 19. 1989. No. 1/2. [January] p. 28.
Index:
Leblanc, Raymond
Perkins, Anthony
Lucky Stiff / That Shamrock Touch (1988)
Kannibalismus ~ Cannibalism
Humor ~ Humor

#168
Fritz, Natalie: "You don’t need to follow anybody: You’ve got to think for yourselves": Monty Pythons satirische Annäherung an das Passionsnarrativ. In: Leid-Bilder: Die Passionsgeschichte in der Kultur. Hrsg. von Natalie Fritz, Marie-Therese Mäder, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati und Baldassare Scolari. - Marburg: Schüren 2018. (= Religion, Film und Medien 1.) pp. 238 ff.
Index:
Jones, Terry
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#169
Frohard-Dourlent, Hâeláene: Someone’s Asian in Dr. Horrible: Humor, reflexivity and the absolution of whiteness. In: Joss Whedon and race: Critical essays. Edited by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 2017. p. ?P.
Index:
Whedon, Joss
Humor ~ Humor
Asien ~ Asia
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity

#170
Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011.
Reviews:
Sanjek, David: [untitled.] In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 29. 2012. No. 3. [?D] pp. 282-284.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#171
Funny! Twenty-five years of laughter from the Pixar story room. Foreword by John Lasseter. Introduction by Jason Katz. - San Francisco: Chronicle Books 2015.
Index:
Pixar [Firma] ~ Pixar [Company]
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#172
Furmanek, Bob / Palumbo, Ron: Abbot and Costello in Hollywood. - New York: Perigee Books 1991.
Reviews:
Neibaur, James L.: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 46. 1992. No. 1. [Fall] p. 56.
Description:
On the Hollywood career of the American comedian duo and their genre film persiflages.
Index:
Abbot, Bud
Costello, Lou
Abbott and Costello (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#173
Gamarra, Edward: The lost laugh: Comedy and perversion. - Druid Hills, Georgia: Emory University, Ph.D. 2002. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 63. 2002. No. 4. (October) p. 1166.]
Description:
Offers the thesis that comedy is perverse because of its origins in the polymorphous perversity of childhood sexuality.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Jugend ~ Youth
Humor ~ Humor

#174
Gangloff, Tilmann P.: Horror und Comedy ... als neuer Trend im Kinderfernsehen. In: Kinder- und Jugendfilm Korrespondenz 17. 1996. No. 3(67). pp. 54-55.
Index:
Jugend ~ Youth
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Fernsehen ~ Television

#175
Gansera, Rainer: American Psycho: Mary Harron hat aus Bret Easton Ellis’ Kultroman eine brilliante Satire gemacht. In: EPD Film 17. 2000. No. 9. [September] p. 41.
Index:
Harron, Mary
Ellis, Bret Easton
American Psycho (2000)
Humor ~ Humor
American Psycho (Literatur ~ Literature)

#176
Gansera, Rainer: Magische Momente: Dr. Seltsam oder Wie ich lernte, die Bombe zu lieben: Stanley Kubrick inszenierte die ätzendste Polit-Satire der Filmgeschichte. In: Film-Dienst 67. 2014. No. 16. [July 31] p. 34.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Magie ~ Magic
Humor ~ Humor

#177
Gardner, Craig Shaw: Blood and laughter: The humor in horror film. In: Cut! Horror writers on horror film. Edited by Christopher Golden. - New York: Berkley Books 1992. pp. 92-100.
Index:
Gardner, Craig Shaw
Humor ~ Humor
Blut ~ Blood
Horror ~ Horror

#178
Geduld, Harry M.: Malign fiesta: Reflections on the humor of horror. In: The Humanist 35. 1975. No. 3. [?D] p. 45.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#179
Gehring, Wes D.: American dark comedy: Beyond satire. - Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press 1996. (= Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture 55.)
Reviews:
Mintz, Lawrence: [untitled] In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 25. 1997. No. 2. [?D] pp. 91-92.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers.
Index:
Stone, Oliver
Natural Born Killers (1994)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor

#180
Gender and laughter: Comic affirmation and subversion in traditional and modern media. Edited by Gaby Pailer [et al.]. - Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi 2009. (= Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 70.)
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#181
Geraghty, Lincoln: Love’s fantastic voyage: Crossing between science fiction and romantic comedy in Innerspace. In: Extrapolation 47. 2006. No. 1. [Spring] pp. 123-133.
Index:
Dante, Joe
Innerspace (1987)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor
Romantik ~ Romanticism

#182
Giacovelli, Enrico: La bottega delle illusioni: Georges Méliès e il cinema comico e fantastico francese (1896-1914). Prefazione di Maurizio Nichetti. - Milano: Bietti 2015. (= Bietti heterotopia 20.)
Index:
Méliès, Georges
Humor ~ Humor
Frankreich ~ France

#183
Gire, Dann: Near Dark: Modern vampires updated with nihilistic violence and insidious black humor. In: Cinefantastique 18. 1988. No. 2/3. [March] pp. 106, 122.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Near Dark (1987)
Nihilismus ~ Nihilism
Vampire ~ Vampires
Humor ~ Humor
Gewalt ~ Violence

#184
Glasenapp, Jörn: Moderne Zeiten. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 158-161.
Description:
On Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times.
Index:
Chaplin, Charles Spencer
Modern Times (1936)
Humor ~ Humor

#185
Glasser, Jean-Claude: Entre rire et délire: Movies et funnies. In: Cinéma et bande dessinée. Dirigée par Gilles Ciment. (= CinémAction 1990. Hors-Série.) pp. 198-208.
Description:
On humoristic elements in comic strips and the animation film.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Animation ~ Animation

#186
Gnauk, Ricarda: Der Wahnsinn hat Methode: Die Dramaturgie der Genre-Parodien von Mel Brooks. - München: Utz 2012. (= Theaterwissenschaft 22.)
Description:
Includes chapters on The Producers, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, The History of the World: Part I, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Young Frankenstein and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
Springtime For Hitler / Producers, The (1967)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
High Anxiety (1977)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Spaceballs (1987)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Wahnsinn ~ Madness
Humor ~ Humor

#187
Gnauk, Ricarda: Der Wahnsinn hat Methode: Die Dramaturgie der Genre-Parodien von Mel Brooks. - München: Universität München, Dissertation 2011.
Description:
Includes chapters on The Producers, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, The History of the World: Part I, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Young Frankenstein and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
Springtime For Hitler / Producers, The (1967)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
High Anxiety (1977)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Spaceballs (1987)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Wahnsinn ~ Madness
Humor ~ Humor

#188
Goldmark, Daniel: Sounds funny / funny sounds: Theorizing cartoon music. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Musik ~ Music
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#189
Goldstein, Kalman: American political cartoons and comics. In: Comedy: A geographic and historical guide. Edited by Maurice Charney. - Westport, Connecticut: Praeger 2005. p. ?P.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Politik ~ Politics
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
Humor ~ Humor

#190
Gonzalez, Christopher: Zombie nationalism: Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror as immigration satire. In: Undead in the West: Vampires, zombies, mummies, and ghosts on the cinematic frontier. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Scarecrow Press 2012. pp. 150 ff.
Index:
Rodriguez, Robert
Planet Terror (2007)
Humor ~ Humor
Western-Filme ~ Western Films
Zombies ~ Zombies
Vampire ~ Vampires
Tod ~ Death
Geister ~ Ghosts

#191
Gottlieb, Erika: The satirical masks of utopia and dystopia: A discussion of the two film versions of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. In: Texas Review 16. 1995. No. 1-4. [?D] pp. 83-94.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Utopie ~ Utopia

#192
Gray, J. A.: Reading through intertextuality: Television, parody and the case of The Simpsons. - London: Goldsmiths College, Ph.D. 2003. [Abstract in: Index to Theses with Abstracts 54. 2005. No. 3. pp. 652-5056).]
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#193
Gray, Jonathan: Television teaching: Parody, The Simpsons and media literary education. In: Critical Studies in Media Communication 22. 2005. No. 3. [August] pp. 223-238.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#194
Gray, Jonathan: Watching with the Simpsons: Television, parody, and intertextuality. - New York: Routledge 2006. (= Comedia.)
Reviews:
Marx, Nick: [untitled.] In: The Velvet Light Trap 2008. No. 62. [?D] pp. 88-90.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#195
Gray, W. Russel: Playing fair with foul play: Alan Parker’s dark humor and camera alibis in Angel Heart. In: Clues 12. 1991. No. 2. [?D] pp. 35-44.
Index:
Parker, Alan
Angel Heart (1987)
Technik: Kamera ~ Technology: Camera
Humor ~ Humor

#196
Griffin, Scott Tracy: Rocket Man: A family adventure comedy about the first manned flight to the Red Planet. In: Cinefantastique 29. 1997. No. 6/7. [November] pp. 116-117, 126.
Index:
Gillard, Stuart
Rocket Man (1997)
Abenteuer ~ Adventure
Humor ~ Humor
Familie ~ Family

#197
Gudd, Kirsten: Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 232-235.
Description:
On Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace.
Index:
Capra, Frank
Arsenic and Old Lace (1941)
Humor ~ Humor

#198
Gudd, Kirsten: Tanz der Vampire. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 339-342.
Description:
On Roman Polanski’s Dance of the Vampires.
Index:
Polanski, Roman
Dance of the Vampires / Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967)
Humor ~ Humor

#199
Gural-Migdal, Anna: Naturalisme et horreur dans Twentynine Palms. In: Naturalisme et excès visuels: Pantomime, parodie, image, fête: Mélanges en l’honneur de David Baguley. Edited by Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze and Edward Welch. - Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009. (= Studies in French literature and culture.) pp. 89-103.
Index:
Dumont, Bruno
Twentynine Palms (2003)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Naturalismus ~ Naturalism

#200
Gwynne, Joel: "Might as well be dead": Domesticity, irony and feminist politics in contemporary animation comedy. In: Critical Studies in Television 10. 2015. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 55-70.
Description:
Discusses, among others, The Simpsons and King of the Hill.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
King of the Hill (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Frauen ~ Women
Animation ~ Animation

#201
Hagopian, Kevin J.: Flint and satyriasis: The Bond parodies of the 1960s. In: Secret agents: Popular icons beyond James Bond. Edited by Jeremy Packer. - New York; Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; Bern; Frankfurt/Main; Berlin; Brussels; Wien; Oxford: Peter Lang 2009. pp. 21 ff.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
James Bond ~ James Bond
Spione ~ Spys

#202
Hairston, Andrea: Different and equal together: SF satire in District 9. In: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22. 2011. No. 3. [?D] pp. 326-346.
Index:
Blomkamp, Neill
District 9 (2009)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor

#203
Halfyard, Janet K.: Everybody scream! Tim Burton’s animated gothic-horror musical-comedies. In: Drawn to sound: Animation film music and sonicity. Edited by Rebecca Coyle. - Oakville, Connecticut: Equinox 2010. (= Genre, music and sound.) p. ?P.
Index:
Burton, Tim
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Animation ~ Animation
Musik ~ Music

#204
Halfyard, Janet K.: Mischief afoot: Supernatural horror-comedies and the Diabolus in musica. In: Music in the horror film: Listening to fear. Edited by Neil Lerner. - New York: Routledge 2010. (= Routledge music and screen media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Wunder ~ Miracles
Angst ~ Fear
Horror ~ Horror
Musik ~ Music

#205
Hallab, Mary Y.: Humor in vampire films: The vampire as joker. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Vampire ~ Vampires
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#206
Hallenbeck, Bruce G.: Comedy-horror films: A chronological history, 1914-2008. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 2009.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the parodistic use of the dark house and the gothic castle motif as well as humourus zombie, vampire, Frankenstein and werewolf films.
Index:
Schloss ~ Castle
Wölfe ~ Wolves
Frankenstein ~ Frankenstein
Vampire ~ Vampires
Zombies ~ Zombies
Haus ~ House
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#207
Hamacher, Rolf-Rüdiger: Hilfe, unser Lehrer ist ein Frosch: Humorvoll-spannender Familienfilm. In: Film-Dienst 70. 2017. No. 12. [June 8] p. 44.
Index:
van der Heide, Anna
Hilfe, unser Lehrer ist ein Frosch (2017)
Humor ~ Humor
Familie ~ Family

#208
Hamdorf, Wolfgang Martin: Die Wirklichkeit neu erfinden. In: EPD Film 34. 2017. No. 5. [May] pp. 42-47.
Description:
On the representation of horror and humor in recent Spanish film.
Index:
Bayona, Juan Antonio
Monster Calls, A (2016)
Spanien ~ Spain
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#209
Handlin, O.: Fear and laughter. In: The Atlantic 221. 1968. No. ?N. [January] pp. 116 ff.
Description:
On Alfred Hitchcock.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Humor ~ Humor
Angst ~ Fear

#210
Hanel, Heiko: AKIRA mit Humor: I married a strange Person. In: Splatting Image 2000. No. 41. [March] pp. 64-65.
Index:
Plympton, Bill
I Married a Strange Person (1997)
Akira (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor

#211
Hanich, Julian: Dis/liking disgust: The revulsion experience at the movies. In: New Review of Film and Television Studies 7. 2009. No. 3. [September] pp. 293-309.
Description:
Examines especially the use of disgust in horror and fantasy film as well as in teenage comedies. Includes an analysis of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma.
Index:
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma / Salou ou les 120 journees de Sodome (1975)
Jugend ~ Youth
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Fantasy ~ Fantasy

#212
Hantke, Steffen: Rebellion of the German seniors: Demographic dystopia as "Event Television". In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 39. 2011. No. 4. [?D] pp. 193-200.
Description:
On Jörg Lühdorff’s utopic TV satire 2030 - Aufstand der Alten.
Index:
Lühdorff, Jörg
2030 - Aufstand der Alten (TV)
Utopie ~ Utopia
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Deutschland ~ Germany

#213
Hantke, Steffen: Titanic. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 389-394.
Index:
Cameron, James
Titanic (1997)
Humor ~ Humor

#214
Haslam, Jason: "A secret proclamation": Queering the gothic parody of Arsenic and Old Lace. In: Gothic Studies 7. 2005. No. 2. [November] pp. 127-142.
Index:
Capra, Frank
Arsenic and Old Lace (1941)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#215
Hatley, Alana: What’s the difference? Satire and separation in that "Little Puppet Show". In: In the peanut gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on film, fandom, technology, and the culture of riffing. Edited by Robert G. Weiner and Shelley E. Barba. Forewords by Kevin Murphy and Robert Moses Peaslee. Afterword by Mary Jo Pehl. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Animation: Puppen ~ Animation: Puppets

#216
Haufen, Graf: Humoristisches Denkstück: Man bites Dog. In: Splatting Image 1993. No. 13. [March] pp. 61-62.
Index:
Belvaux, Rémy
Bonzel, André
Poelvoorde, Benoît
C’est arrivé prés de chez vous (1992)
Humor ~ Humor

#217
Heil, Susan Kay Romoser: Does humor mediate the effects of film violence? Affective consequences of viewing the violent action comedy. - Manhattan, Kansas: Kansas State University, Ph.D. 2001. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International B 62. 2002. No. 7. [January] p. 3420].
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#218
Heinz, Sarah: Der rosarote Panther. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 319-321.
Description:
On Blake Edwards’s The Pink Panther.
Index:
Edwards, Blake
Pink Panther, The (1963)
Humor ~ Humor

#219
Heit, Jamey: No laughing matter: The Joker as a Nietzschean critique of morality. In: Vader, Voldemort and other villains: Essays on evil in popular media. Edited by Jamey Heit. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Company 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Batman (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Batman ~ Batman
Böse, Das ~ Evil, The

#220
Heller, Franziska: Zazie. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 297-300.
Index:
Malle, Louis
Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
Humor ~ Humor

#221
Heller, Heinz-b. / Kreimeier, Klaus: Monsieur Verdoux - der Frauenmörder von Paris / Der Heiratsschwindler.In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 236-241.
Index:
Chaplin, Charles Spencer
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Humor ~ Humor

#222
Heller, Heinz-B.: Playtime - Tatis herrliche Zeiten. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 345-349.
Index:
Tati, Jacques
Playtime (1967)
Humor ~ Humor

#223
Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra: Revenge of the cheese grater: Housebound and the domestic horror-comedy. In: Metro 2015. No. 184. [Autumn] pp. 24-27.
Index:
Johnstone, Gerard
Housebound (2014)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#224
Henry, Matthew: "Gabbin’ about God": religion, secularity, and satire on The Simpsons. In: Homer Simpson marches on Washington: Dissent through American popular culture. Edited by Timothy M. Dale and Joseph J. Foy. Foreword by Kate Mulgrew. - Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky 2010. p. ?P.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Politik ~ Politics

#225
Henry, Matthew A.: The Simpsons, satire, and American culture. - New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2012.
Reviews:
Burns, Anthony: [untitled.] In: Journal of American Culture 37. 2014. No. 1. [?D] pp. 116-117.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the representation of women, religion and homosexuality in the TV series.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Religion ~ Religion
Sexualität: Homosexualität ~ Sexuality: Homosexuality
Frauen ~ Women

#226
Hernández Ávila, José Bernardo: Disney’s Alice in Wonderland: A Cold War parody? In: Applied Semiotics / Sémiotique appliqué ?G. 2007. No. 19. [?D] p. ?P.
Index:
Geronimi, Clyde
Luske, Hamilton
Jackson, Wilfred
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Krieg ~ War
Humor ~ Humor
Disney ~ Disney

#227
Heumann, Joseph K. / Murray, Robin L.: Laughter and the eco-horror film: The Troma solution. In: Heumann, Joseph K. / Murray, Robin L.: Monstrous nature: Environment and horror on the big screen. - Lincoln, Nebrasca: University of Nebraska Press 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Troma [Firma] ~ Troma [Company]
Humor ~ Humor
Tiere ~ Animals
Horror ~ Horror
Natur ~ Nature
Politik ~ Politics

#228
Heuner, Ulf: Die Zeit nach Mitternacht In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 399-402.
Description:
On Martin Scorsese’s After Hours.
Index:
Scorsese, Martin
After Hours (1985)
Humor ~ Humor

#229
Heuring, David: My Stepmother is an Alien - Sci-fi comedy. In: American Cinematographer 69. 1988. No. 12. [December] pp. 44-50.
Description:
On the special effects for the film by Richard Benjamin.
Index:
Benjamin, Richard
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects

#230
Heybrock, Mathias: "Jelinski und Buttgereit" vs. "Warner Bros." In: EPD Film 13. 1996. No. 12. [December] p. 17.
Description:
On the lawsuit on a parodistic use of the Warner logo.
Index:
Jelinski, Manfred
Buttgereit, Jörg
Justiz ~ Justice
Humor ~ Humor
Warner Bros. ~ Warner Bros.

#231
Hibbs, Thomas S.: The human comedy perpetuates itself: Nihilism and comedy in Coen neo-noir. In: The philosophy of neo-noir. Edited by Mark T. Conard. - Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky 2007. (= The philosophy of popular culture.) p. ?P.
Index:
Coen, Ethan
Coen, Joel
Nihilismus ~ Nihilism
Humor ~ Humor
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Film Noir ~ Film Noir

#232
Hibbs, Thomas S.: The human condition perpetuates itself: Nihilism and comedy in Coen neo-noir. In: The philosophy of the Coen brothers. Edited by Mark T. Conrad. - Lexington, Kentucky: Kentucky University Press 2009. (= The philosophy of popular culture.) pp. 27-40.
Index:
Coen, Joel
Coen, Ethan
Fargo (1995)
Raising Arizona (1986)
Big Lebowski, The (1998)
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Nihilismus ~ Nihilism
Humor ~ Humor
Film Noir ~ Film Noir

#233
Hißnauer, Christian: Fressorgien: Die pervertierte Überflussgesellschaft in Satire, Dokumentarfilm und Reality Soap. In: Ist man, was man isst? Essrituale im Film. Hrsg. von Anton Escher und Thomas Koebner. - München: Edition Text + Kritik 2009. (= Projektionen 1.) pp. 177 ff.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Dokumentarfilm ~ Documentary Film
Nahrung ~ Food

#234
Höbel, Wolfgang: Möge der Quatsch mit dir sein. In: Der Spiegel 66. 2012. No. 14. [April 2] pp. 127-128.
Description:
On Timo Vuorensola’s Nazi parody Iron Sky.
Index:
Vuorensola, Timo
Iron Sky (2012)
Humor ~ Humor
Faschismus ~ Fascism

#235
Hoberman, J.: Laugh, cry, believe: Spielbergization and its discontents. In: Virginia Quarterly Review 83. 2007. No. 1. [?D] pp. 119-135.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Humor ~ Humor

#236
Hoberman, James: Martin Scorsese and the comedy of public life. In: Hoberman, James: Vulgar modernism: Writings on movies and other media. - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press 1991. (= Culture and the Moving Image.) pp. 76-85.
Description:
Especially on Taxi Driver.
Index:
Scorsese, Martin
Taxi Driver (1975)
Humor ~ Humor

#237
Hogan, David J.: Three Stooges FAQ: Everything left to know about the eye-poking, face-slapping, head-thumping geniuses. - Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2011.
Index:
Three Stooges (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Augen ~ Eyes

#238
Höltgen, Stefan: Wenn es sich biegt, ist es komisch: Moderne Horrorkomödien. In: Splatting Image 2003. No. 53. [March] pp. 6-10.
Description:
Includes a bibliography.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#239
Horlacher, Pia: Wollt ihr den totalen Mordsspaß? Zu Oliver Stones angeblicher Satire Natural Born Killers. In: Neue Züricher Zeitung. 29. Oktober 1994. p. ?P.
Index:
Stone, Oliver
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Mord ~ Murder
Humor ~ Humor

#240
Horror-Parodien: Ungeheuer lächerlich. In: Horror Moments. Hrsg. von Dirk Manthey und Jörg Altendorf. Chefredaktion: Willy Loderhose. Autorin: Kerstin Schlemmer. - Hamburg: Kino Verlag 1992. (= Cinema Filmbuch 3.) pp. 84-117.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#241
Horsley, Jason: Scrying the culture: Stealing candy/healing laughter: The evolution of the schizo comedy. In: Horsley, Jason: The secret life of movies: Schizophrenic and shamanic journeys in American cinema. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Company 2009. p.?P.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Krankheit ~ Illness
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Wahnsinn ~ Madness

#242
Horton, Andrew: Carnivals bright, dark, and grotesque in the glasnost satires of Mamin, Mustavayev, and Shakhnazarov. In: Inside soviet film satire: Laughter with a lash. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. (= Cambridge Studies in Film.) pp. 138-148.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Karen Schachnasarow’s Gorod zero and Vaghif Mustafayev’s
Merzavets.
Index:
Schachnasarow, Karen
Mustafayev, Vagif
Gorod zero (1989)
Merzavets / Yaramaz (1988)
Karneval ~ Carnival
Humor ~ Humor
UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken) ~ USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

#243
Horton, Andrew: Introduction: Carnival versus lashing laughter in Soviet cinema. In: Inside soviet film satire: Laughter with a lash. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. (= Cambridge Studies in Film.) pp. 1-13.
Index:
Karneval ~ Carnival
Humor ~ Humor
UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken) ~ USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

#244
Hoskin, Dave: Playing dead comedy, politics and games in Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead. In: Metro 2015. No. 185. [Winter] pp. 22-27.
Index:
Roache-Turner, Kiah
Wyrmwood (2014)
Politik ~ Politics
Humor ~ Humor

#245
Howell, Yvonne: From "sots-romanticism" to rom-com: The Strugatskiis’ Monday Begins on Saturday as a film comedy. In: Science Fiction Film and Television 8. 2015. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 127-143.
Index:
Strugatzki, Arkadi
Strugatzki, Boris
Belinsky, Aleksandr
Ponedelnik nachinaetsya v subbotu (1965)
Humor ~ Humor
Romantik ~ Romanticism
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Literatur ~ Literature

#246
Hubácková, V.: Trikrat kresleny humor v novych ceskych animovanych filmech. In: Film a Doba 32. 1986. No. 9. [?D] pp. 533-535.
Description:
On the contemporary czech animation film.
Index:
Tschechien ~ Czech
Tschechoslowakei ~ Czechoslovakia
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#247
Hui, Isaac: The comedy of the "para-site": Duck Soup, Volpone, and Hamlet. In: The Comparatist 2016. No. 40. [?D] pp. 170-189.
Index:
Shakespeare, William
Johnson, Ben
Humor ~ Humor
Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, The (Literatur ~ Literature)
Volpone (Literatur ~ Literature)

#248
Humoresques 6: Humour et cinéma. Textes réunies par Daniel Royot. - Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes 1995.
Reviews:
Wedel, Michael: [untitled] In: Medienwissenschaft 1997. No. 1. pp. 76-78.
Description:
Includes articles on the humor in the animation film.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#249
Hurley, Neil P.: The divine comedies of Frank Capra. In: America: The National Catholic Weekly 152. 1985. No. ?N. [April 20] pp. 322-324.
Index:
Capra, Frank
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#250
Huschke, Roland: Wahnwitziger Episodenkrimi: Pulp Fiction. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1994. No. 9(196). [?D] pp. 60-64.
Index:
Tarantino, Quentin
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Humor ~ Humor
Kriminalität ~ Crime

#251
Inside soviet film satire: Laughter with a lash. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. (= Cambridge Studies in Film.)
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken) ~ USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

#252
Jablonski, Cynthia King / Zillmann, Dolf: Humor’s role in the trivialization of violence. In: Medienpsychologie 7. 1995. No. 2. [?D] pp. 122-133.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Gewalt ~ Violence

#253
Jackson, Russell: Shakespeare’s comedies on film. In: Shakespeare and the moving image: The plays on film and television. Edited by Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. pp. 99-120.
Description:
Especially on the film versions of A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest with special emphasis on Peter Greenaway’s Prosperos Books.
Index:
Shakespeare, William
Greenaway, Peter
Prospero’s Books (1991)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Midsummer Nights Dream, A (Literatur ~ Literature)
Taming of the Shrew, The (Literatur ~ Literature)
Tempest, The (Literatur ~ Literature)

#254
Janssen, David A.: "Time to lose faith in humanity": The Simpsons, South Park, and the satiric Tradition. In: Studies in Popular Culture 26. 2003. No. 1. [?D] pp. 27-36.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
South Park (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#255
Jenkins, Henry: "I like to sock myself in the face": Reconsidering "vulgar modernism". In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#256
Jernudd, Åsa: Christmas satire on Swedish television: Christopher’s Christmas Mission. In: Journal of Scandanavian Cinema 3. 2013. No. 3. [September] pp. 253-258.
Index:
Ahlin, Per
Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton (1975)
Schweden ~ Sweden
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation ~ Animation

#257
Johns, Timothy: Laughing off apartheid: Comedy at the twilight of White minority rule. In: Journal of Narrative Theory 39. 2009. No. 2. [?D] pp. 211-240.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Jamie Uys’s The Gods Must Be Crazy.
Index:
Uys, Jamie
Gods Must Be Crazy, The (1980)
Politik ~ Politics
Humor ~ Humor

#258
Johnson, Vida T.: Laughter beyond the mirror: Humor and satire in the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky. In: Inside soviet film satire: Laughter with a lash. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. (= Cambridge Studies in Film.) pp. 98-104.
Index:
Tarkovsky, Andrei Arsenyevich
Humor ~ Humor
Spiegel ~ Mirror
UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken) ~ USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

#259
Jones, Alan: American Werewolf in Paris: Comedy, horror, effects, getting the right mix. In: Cinefantastique 29. 1998. No. 9. [January] pp. 38-39.
Index:
Waller, Anthony
American Werewolf in Paris, An (1997)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#260
Jones, Alan: An American Werewolf in Paris: The sequel to the comedy horror classic. In: Cinefantastique 29. 1997. No. 4/5. [October] pp. 14-15.
Index:
Waller, Anthony
American Werewolf in Paris, An (1997)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#261
Jones, Alan: Brain Damage: A queasy mix of comedy and horror by Frank Hennenlotter. In: Cinefantastique 18. 1988. No. 2/3. [March] pp. 8-11.
Index:
Henenlotter, Frank
Brain Damage (1988)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#262
Jones, Alan: Crimetime: The director of The Vanishing returns to psycho-terror with this futuristic satire. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1997. No. 8. [February] pp. 14-15.
Index:
Sluizer, George
Vanishing, The (1992)
Crimetime (1996)
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Humor ~ Humor
Futurismus ~ Futurism

#263
Jones, Alan: Erik the Viking: Monty Pythonite Terry Jones directs fantasy/comedy. In: Cinefantastique 20. 1989. No. 1/2. [November] p. 26.
Index:
Jones, Terry
Erik the Viking (1989)
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy

#264
Jones, Alan: High Spirits. In: Cinefantastique 19. 1989. No. 1/2. [January] pp. 16-21.
Description:
On Neil Jordan’s ghost comedy.
Index:
Jordan, Neil
High Spirits (1988)
Humor ~ Humor
Geister ~ Ghosts

#265
Jones, Alan: Judge Dredd: Comedy relief: Rob Schneider on playing Dredd’s sidekick Fergie. In: Cinefantastique 26. 1995. No. 5. [August] p. 37.
Index:
Cannon, Danny
Schneider, Rob
Judge Dredd (1995)
Humor ~ Humor

#266
Jones, Alan: Loch Ness: Ted Danson stars in a romantic comedy about the legendary Scottish creature. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 2. [September] pp. 44-45.
Index:
Henderson, John
Danson, Ted
Loch Ness (1995)
Schottland ~ Scotland
Humor ~ Humor
Romantik ~ Romanticism

#267
Jongeward, Steven: Fright Night 2: John Carpenter protege Tommy Lee Wallace on directing a sequel to 1985’s comedy shocker. In: Cinefantastique 18. 1988. No. 5. [July] pp. 15, 59.
Index:
Wallace, Tommy Lee
Carpenter, John
Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
Humor ~ Humor
Angst ~ Fear

#268
Jongeward, Steven: Fright Night 2: John Carpenter protege Tommy Lee Wallace helms sequel to vampire comedy. In: Cinefantastique 18. 1988. No. 4. [May] pp. 18, 67.
Index:
Wallace, Tommy Lee
Carpenter, John
Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
Vampire ~ Vampires
Humor ~ Humor

#269
Joris, Luc: Humor uit Canada. In: Film en Televisie 1992. No. 420/421. [?D] pp. 40-41.
Description:
On the Canadian animation film.
Index:
Animation ~ Animation
Kanada ~ Canada
Humor ~ Humor

#270
Jowett, Lorna: Biting humor: Harmony, parody, and the female vampire. In: The literary Angel: Essays on influences and traditions reflected in the Joss Whedon series. Edited by AmiJo Comeford and Tamy Burnett. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland 2010. p. ?P.
Index:
Whedon, Joss
Angel (TV)
Vampire ~ Vampires
Humor ~ Humor
Frauen ~ Women

#271
Juhl, Lena / Seidelin, Christopher: Et univers uden græser: Komikkens udvikling i den amerikanske tegnefiim. In: Kosmorama 51. 2005. No. 235. [Summer] pp. 7-28.
Description:
On parody and humor in the history of American animated film.
Index:
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#272
Kaes, Anton: Zwischen Parodie und Phantasmagorie. Das "Paradies" in Werner Herzogs Fata Morgana. In: Paradies: Topografien der Sehnsucht. Hrsg. von Claudia Benthien und Manuela Gerlof. - Köln; Weimar; Wien: Böhlau 2010. (= Literatur, Kultur, Geschlecht: Kleine Reihe 27.) pp. 231-248.
Index:
Herzog, Werner
Fata Morgana (1971)
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#273
Kakutani, Michiko: How Woody Allen’s Zelig was born in anxiety and grew into comedy. In: Woody Allen: interviews. Edited by Robert E. Kapsis and Kathie Coblentz. - Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi 2006. (= Conversations with filmmakers.) pp. 73 ff.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Zelig (1982)
Humor ~ Humor

#274
Kaltenecker, Siegfried / Tillner, Georg: Siegfried: Spass am Sport: Jackie Chan. In: Meteor 1996. No. 4. [June] pp. 87-88.
Description:
On humoristic elements in Chan’s Martial Arts films.
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Sport ~ Sports
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Humor ~ Humor

#275
"Kamera drauf, wumm, wumm": Der chinesische Actionfilm-Star und Regisseur Jackie Chan über Hongkong, Liegestütze, Slapstick und seinen neuen Film First Strike. In: Der Spiegel 51. 1997. No. 30. [July 21] pp. 165-167.
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Tong, Stanley
First Strike (1996)
Humor ~ Humor
Action ~ Action
China ~ China
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#276
Kanthak, Dietmar: 11:14: Schwarzer Humor im Filmdebüt von Greg Marcks. In: EPD Film 22. 2005. No. 9. [September] p. 42.
Index:
Marcks, Greg
11:14 (2003)
Humor ~ Humor

#277
Kaplan, Anna L.: William Shatner: Keep on Trekkin’: Captain Kirk finds life beyond the final frontier, including a satire of Trek fandom. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 5. [May] pp. 28-30.
Index:
Shatner, William
Humor ~ Humor
Star Trek ~ Star Trek

#278
Karatsu, Rie: After the wave: Sex, violence, and comedy in the films of Takashi Miike. In: Asian Cinema 18. 2007. No. 1. [?D] pp. 23-42.
Index:
Miike, Takashi
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Humor ~ Humor
Gewalt ~ Violence

#279
Karschay, Stephan: Laughing in horror: Hybrid genre and the grotesque body in Psychoville. In: British TV comedies: Cultural concepts, contexts and controversies. Edited by Jürgen Kamm. - Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016. pp. 341-358.
Index:
Psychoville (TV)
Körper ~ Bodies
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#280
Kaufman, J. B.: The heir apparent. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#281
Keil, Charlie / Goldmark, Daniel: Introduction: What makes these pictures so funny? In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#282
Kellner, Douglas: Jabs and blows against the regime: From satire to dystopia. In: Kellner, Douglas: Cinema wars: Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era. - Malden, Massachussetts: Wiley-Blackwell 2010. p. ?P.
Index:
Bush, George Walker
Cheney, Richard Bruce "Dick"
Utopie ~ Utopia
Politik ~ Politics
Humor ~ Humor
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Krieg ~ War

#283
Kelly, Casey Ryan: Sexsploitation in abstinence satires. In: Kelly, Casey Ryan: Abstinence cinema: Virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film. - New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Exploitation ~ Exploitation
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#284
Kelly, Kevin: "Science Fiction kann witzig sein". In: kulturSpiegel 2000. No. 9. [September] pp. 22-25.
Description:
Interview with Matt Groening, the founder of the Simpsons, on his animation series Futurama.
Index:
Groening, Matt
Futurama (TV)
Animation ~ Animation
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics

#285
Kilgore, De Witt Douglas: Changing regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre’s parodic astrofuturism. In: Science Fiction Studies 27. 2000. No. 2(?N). [July] pp. 256-277.
Description:
On McIntyre’s Star Trek novelizations.
Index:
McIntyre, Vonda N.
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor

#286
Kimmel, Daniel M.: Second Sight: Bronson Pinchot as a psychic detective plays effects for laughs. In: Cinefantastique 19. 1989. No. 4. [May] p. 14.
Index:
Zwick, Joel
Pinchot, Bronson
Second Sight (1989)
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Humor ~ Humor
Detektive ~ Detectives

#287
King, Cynthia M.: Effects of humorous heroes and villains in violent action films. In: Journal of Communication 50. 2000. No. 1. [Winter] pp. 5-24.
Index:
Böse, Das ~ Evil, The
Humor ~ Humor
Helden ~ Heros
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#288
King, Cynthia: What’s so funny? Humor in horror films. In: Creative Screenwriting 7. 2000. No. 4. [?D] pp. 47-53.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#289
King, Rob: The art of diddling: Slapstick, science, and antimodernism in the films of Charley Bowers. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Bowers, Charley
Wissenschaft ~ Science
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#290
Klamauk ohne Tiefgang. In: Phantastische Zeiten 1987. No. 12([1]). pp. 10-15.
Description:
Mel Brooks on his Star Wars parody Spaceballs.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
Spaceballs (1987)
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Star Wars ~ Star Wars

#291
Klein, Thomas: Betty Blue - 37,2 Grad am Morgen. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 248-251.
Index:
Beineix, Jean-Jacques
37,2 le matin (1985)
Humor ~ Humor

#292
Kleiner, Felicitas: Deadbeat - Staffel 1: Slacker vs. Tote Seelen: Comedy-Geisterserie. In: Film-Dienst 68. 2015. No. 18. [September 3] p. 54.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Deadbeat (TV)
Tod ~ Death
Humor ~ Humor
Geister ~ Ghosts
DVD ~ DVD

#293
Kleiner, Felicitas: Martial Arts trifft Steampunk: Tai Chi Zero: Ein humorvolles Fantasy-Abenteuer von Stephen Fung. In: Film-Dienst 66. 2013. No. 14. [July 4] p. 48.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Fung, Stephen
Tai Chi Zero (2012)
Punk ~ Punk
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
DVD ~ DVD
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#294
Kleiner, Felicitas: PK: Aufklärerische Religionssatire in Form eines Bollywood-Spektakels. In: Film-Dienst 68. 2015. No. 8. [April 16] p. 46.
Index:
Hirani, Rajkumar
PK (2014)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor
Bollywood ~ Bollywood

#295
Kleiner, Felicitas: The Tick: Superelden-Parodie. In: Film-Dienst 70. 2017. No. 22. [October 26] p. 54.
Description:
On a DVD edition of the TV series.
Index:
Edlund, Ben
Tick, The (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
DVD ~ DVD

#296
Knight, Deborah / McKnight, George: American psycho: Horror, satire, aesthetics, and identification. In: Dark thoughts: Philosophic reflections on cinematic horror. Edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Daniel Shaw. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Scarecrow Press 2003. pp. 212-220.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#297
Knop, Karin: Die fabelhafte Welt der Amélie. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 495-498.
Description:
On Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie.
Index:
Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le / Amélie (2001)
Humor ~ Humor

#298
Knopf, Christina M.: Zany zombies, grinning ghosts, silly scientists, and nasty Nazis: Comedy-horror at the threshold of World War II. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Krieg ~ War
Horror ~ Horror
Geister ~ Ghosts
Faschismus ~ Fascism
Humor ~ Humor

#299
Koebner, Thomas: Eine verhängnisvolle Affäre. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 285-288.
Description:
On Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction.
Index:
Lyne, Adrian
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Humor ~ Humor

#300
Koepsell, David R.: They satirized my prophet - those bastards! South Park and blasphemy. In: South Park and philosophy: You know, I learned something today. Edited by Robert Arp. - Oxford; Malden, Massachussetts: Blackwell 2007. (= Blackwell philosophy and popculture.) p. ?P.
Index:
South Park (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion
Philosophie ~ Philosophy

#301
Kokes, Radomír: Teoretizování o zánrové povaze fikçních svetech ceských sci-fi komedií. In: Iluminace 23. 2011. No. 3. [?D] pp. 71-92.
Description:
On Czech science fiction comedies.
Index:
Tschechien ~ Czech
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor
Tschechoslowakei ~ Czechoslovakia

#302
Kolker, Robert Phillip: Comedy, Capra, and monsters (1931-1944). In: Kolker, Robert Phillip: The cultures of American film. - New York: Oxford University Press 2015. p. ?P.
Index:
Capra, Frank
Monster ~ Monster
Humor ~ Humor
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)

#303
Koll, Horst Peter: Er ist wieder da: Hitlers Comeback als Comedy-Star und Verführer der Unzufriedenen. In: Film-Dienst 68. 2015. No. 21. [October 15] p. 50.
Index:
Wnendt, David
Er ist wieder da (2015)
Verführung ~ Seduction
Humor ~ Humor

#304
Koll, Horst Peter: Mitten in der Winternacht: Humorvoll-turbulente Kinderbuchadaption, die Weihnachtsstimmung ohne Kitsch verbreitet. In: Film-Dienst 67. 2014. No. 24. [November 20] p. 52.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Steinhöfel, Andreas
Blok, Lourens
Midden in de Winternacht (2013)
Weihnachten ~ Christmas
Kitsch ~ Kitsch
Jugend ~ Youth
Humor ~ Humor
DVD ~ DVD
Es ist ein Elch entsprungen (Literatur ~ Literature)

#305
Kos cielski, Kamil: Pastisz w cieniu parodii, czyli opowies c o pewnej przegodzie amerykanskiego horroru lat 80. In: 80s again! Monografia poswiecona latom 80. XX wieku. Redakcja Aneta Jablonska, Mariusz Korycinski. - Warszawa: Klub Filmowy im. Jolanty Slobodzian 2017. (="Z Wehikulem" 1.) p. ?P.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#306
Kreimeier, Klaus: Sherlock Junior / Sheriock Holmes jr. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 56-60.
Index:
Keaton, Buster
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Humor ~ Humor

#307
Kreimeier, Klaus: The Purple Rose of Cairo. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 391-398.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)
Humor ~ Humor

#308
Kronemeyer, Nadja: Die Dinge des Lebens. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 189-193.
Description:
On Claude Sautet’s Les choses de la vie.
Index:
Sautet, Claude
choses de la vie, Les (1970)
Humor ~ Humor

#309
Kühn, Alexander: Der einsame Narr. In: Der Spiegel 67. 2013 No. 29. [July 15] pp. 70-73.
Description:
On German comedian Otto Waalkes and his 7 Zwerge films.
Index:
Waalkes, Otto
Unterwaldt, Sven
7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald (2004)
7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug (2006)
Humor ~ Humor
Deutschland ~ Germany

#310
Lablanc, Ronald D.: Love and Death and food: Woody Allen’s comic use of gastronomy. In: The films of Woody Allen: Critical essays. Edited by Charles L. P. Silet. - Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press 2006. p. ?P.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Love and Death (1974)
Humor ~ Humor
Nahrung ~ Food

#311
Lamb, Wendy: A funny thing happened on the way to the cinema: Shakespeare’s comedies in film and television. - Riverside, Palm Desert, California: University of California, Riverside, Ph.D. 2010. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 72. 2011. No. 2. (August)]
Description:
Discusses, among others, the filmings of A Midsummer Nights Dream and The Tempest.
Index:
Shakespeare, William
Tempest, The (Literatur ~ Literature)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Midsummer Nights Dream, A (Literatur ~ Literature)

#312
Lambri, Silvia: Der verrückte Professor. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 316-318.
Description:
On Jerry Lewis’s The Nutty Professor.
Index:
Lewis, Jerry
Nutty Professor, The (1963)
Humor ~ Humor

#313
Lamm, Robert: "Can we laugh at God?" Apocalyptic comedy in film. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 19. 1991. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 81-90.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, George Roy Hill’s Slaughterhouse Five and Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.
Index:
Jones, Terry
Capra, Frank
Hill, George Roy
Kubrick, Stanley
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)
Slaughterhouse Five (1971)
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Tod ~ Death
Religion ~ Religion
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Humor ~ Humor
Religion: Apokalypse ~ Religion: Apocalypse

#314
Langer, Mark: Polyphony and heterogeneity in early Fleischer films: Comic strips, vaudeville, and the New York style. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
New York ~ New York
Fleischer Studio ~ Fleischer Studio
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#315
Lanier, Douglas: Will of the people: Recent Shakespeare film parody and the politics of popularization. In: A concise companion to Shakespeare on screen Edited by Diana E. Henderson. Afterword by Kathleen McLuskie. - Oxford; Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell 2006. (= Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.) pp. 176-196.
Index:
Shakespeare, William
Humor ~ Humor

#316
Larraz, Emmanuel: La vision ironique de don Luis. In: Christianisme et cinéma. Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle. (= Cinémaction 1996. No. 80. [?D]) pp. 190-195.
Description:
On the satiric use of excessive religious elements in the films of Luis Buñuel.
Index:
Buñuel, Luis
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#317
The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.)
Reviews:
Young, David: [untitled.] In: Journal of American Culture 37. 2014. No. 1. [?D] pp. 111-112.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor

#318
Lattuada, Alberto: Un film, un realisateur, deux comediennes. In: Positif 1994. No. 400. [June] pp. 69-70.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Fritz Lang’s M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder.
Index:
Lang, Fritz
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931)
Humor ~ Humor

#319
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone: Oldboy. In: The movie book. Contributors: Louis Baxter, John Farndon, Kieran Grant, Damon Wise. Consultant editor: Danny Leigh. - New York: DK Publishing 2016. (= Big ideas simply explained.) p. ?P.
Index:
Park Chan-wook
Oldeuboi (2003)
Humor ~ Humor

#320
The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Index:
Whale, James
Fleischer, Ruben
Bride of Frankenstein, The (1935)
Zombieland (2009)
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#321
Lavender-Smith, Jordan: Irony Inc.: Parodic doc horror and The Blair Witch Project. In: Scope [Nottingham] 2009. No. 15. [?D] p. ?P.
Index:
Myrick, Daniel
Sanchez, Eduardo
Blair Witch Project, The (1999)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#322
Lee Wing-sze: It’s a madhouse. In: South China Morning Post [HK], May 7, 2010. p. C5.
Description:
On Pang Ho-cheung’s Dream Home (Wai dor lei ah yut ho), a horror film which satirises the Hong Kong property market.
Index:
Pang Ho-cheung
Wai dor lei ah yut ho (2010)
Wahnsinn ~ Madness
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#323
Leeder, Murray: The humor of William Castle’s gimmick films. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Castle, William
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#324
Lehtinen, Lauri: Parantumaton skitsoterapeutti. In: Filmihullu 1997. No. 4/5. [?D] pp. 45-49.
Description:
On John Waters’s black comedies.
Index:
Waters, John
Humor ~ Humor

#325
Leitch, Thomas: Noir at play. In: The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Film Noir ~ Film Noir
Humor ~ Humor

#326
Lenihan, John H.: Hollywood laughs at the Cold War, 1947-1961. In: Hollywood as mirror: Changing views of "outsiders" and "enemies" in American movies. Edited by Robert Brent Toplin. - Westport, Connecticut; London: Greenwood Press 1993. (= Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture 38.) pp. 139-155.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Krieg ~ War
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#327
Lennard, Dominic: "Why so serious?": Battling the comic in The Dark Knight. In: The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Nolan, Christopher
Dark Knight, The (2008)
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Humor ~ Humor

#328
Leung Wing-Fai: Importing genre, exporting cult: The Japanese zom-com. In: Asian Cinema 22. 2011. No. 1. [Spring/Summer] pp. 110-121.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Tetsuro Takeuchi’s Wild Zero and Sakichi Satô’s Tôkyô zonbi.
Index:
Takeuchi, Tetsuro
Satô, Sakichi
Wild Zero (1999)
Tôkyô zonbi (2005)
Japan ~ Japan
Humor ~ Humor
Zombies ~ Zombies

#329
Lewis, Paul: Painful laughter: The collapse of humor in Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories. In: Studies in American Jewish Literature 1986. No. 5. [?D] pp. 141-150.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Stardust Memories (1980)
Humor ~ Humor

#330
Lewis, Paul: Painful laughter: The collapse of humor in Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories. In: The films of Woody Allen: Critical essays. Edited by Charles L. P. Silet. - Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press 2006. p. ?P.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Stardust Memories (1980)
Humor ~ Humor

#331
Li Qiaoyi: No laughing matter: China’s animation and cartoon industry boasts big numbers, but little impact. In: Global Times, June 11, 2009. p. 20.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
China ~ China
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
Animation ~ Animation

#332
Lim, Dennis: Brain humor. In: Village Voice 44. 1999. No. ?N. [October 26] pp. 44 ff.
Description:
On Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich.
Index:
Jonze, Spike
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Gehirn ~ Brain
Humor ~ Humor

#333
Lindvall, Chris / Lindval, Terry: The word made gag: Biblical reception in film comedy. In: The Bible in motion: A handbook of the Bible and its reception in film. Ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch. - Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter 2016. (= Handbooks of the Bible and its Reception (HBR) 2.) pp. 253 ff.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#334
Lipoma, Lori: Deconstructing the Devil: Satan comedy in Mark Twain’s Letters from the Earth and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s South Park. In: Studies in American Humor 2007. No. 15. [?D] pp. 45-73.
Index:
Twain, Mark
Parker, Trey
Stone, Matt
South Park (TV)
Religion: Teufel ~ Religion: Devil
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor
Letters from the Earth (Literatur ~ Literature)

#335
Liptay, Fabienne: Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 70-74.
Description:
On Wilhelm Dieterle’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
Index:
Dieterle, Wilhelm
Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The (1939)
Humor ~ Humor

#336
Liptay, Fabienne: Harold und Maude. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 198-201.
Index:
Ashby, Hal
Harold and Maude (1971)
Humor ~ Humor

#337
Liptay, Fabienne: In the Mood for Love. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 400-407.
Index:
Wong Kar-wai
Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood For Love (2000)
Humor ~ Humor

#338
Liptay, Fabienne: Sunrise. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 25-33.
Index:
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Humor ~ Humor

#339
Liptay, Fabienne: Vertigo - Aus dem Reich der Toten. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 152-158.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Vertigo (1958)
Humor ~ Humor

#340
Lueken, Verena: Auf in die Zukunft, sie heißt Mord: Oliver Stone dreht seine erste Satire: Natural Born Killers. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 27. Oktober 1994. p. ?P.
Index:
Stone, Oliver
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Utopie ~ Utopia
Mord ~ Murder
Humor ~ Humor

#341
Lunde, Arne: Through a laugh darkly: Comedy in the films of Ingmar Bergman. In: Journal of Scandanavian Cinema 4. 2014. No. 3. [September] pp. 239-253.
Index:
Bergman, Ingmar
Humor ~ Humor

#342
Lust, Erika: Good porn: A woman’s guide. Translated by X. P. Callahan. - Berkeley, California: Seal Press 2010.
First edition:
[Porno para mujeres.]
Description:
On pornographic films. Includes a chapter on "horror movies, comedies, and porn".
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Frauen ~ Women

#343
Lyons, Jonathan C.: Comedy for animators. - Burlington, Massachussetts: Focal Press 2015.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#344
Magid, Ron: Satirical effects for Spaceballs. In: American Cinematographer 68. 1987. No. 12. [December] pp. 58-62.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
Spaceballs (1987)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Humor ~ Humor

#345
Magid, Ron: Transparent effects make Casper a landmark: ILM combines slapstick and supernatural. In: American Cinematographer 76. 1995. No. 12. [December] pp. 54-60.
Index:
Silberling, Brad
Casper (1995)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Wunder ~ Miracles
Humor ~ Humor
ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) ~ ILM (Industrial Light and Magic)

#346
Mähkä, Rami: Subverted and transgressed borders: The empire in British comedy and horror films. In: Frontiers of screen history: Imagining European borders in cinema, 1945-2010. Edited by Raita Merivirta, Kimmo Ahonen, Heta Mulari, Rami Mähká. - Bristol; Chicago: Intellect 2013. (= Studies on popular culture 2041-6725.) p. ?P.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain
Europa ~ Europe

#347
Maland, Charles: Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare comedy and the ideology of liberal consensus. In: Hollywood as historian: American film in a cultural context. Edited by Peter C. Rollings. - Lexington: University Press of Kentucky 1983. pp. 190-210.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Geschichte ~ History
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Traum ~ Dreams
Humor ~ Humor
Politik ~ Politics
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#348
Maland, Charles: Dr. Strangelove: Nightmare comedy and the ideology of liberal consensus. In: American Quarterly 31. 1979. No. 5. [?D] pp. 697-717.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Traum ~ Dreams
Politik ~ Politics
Humor ~ Humor

#349
Mamber, Stephen: In search of radical metacinema. In: Comedy / cinema / theory. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Berkeley: University of California Press 1991. pp. 79-90.
Description:
On Stanley Kubrick.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Humor ~ Humor

#350
Mamber, Stephen: Parody, intertextuality, signature: Kubrick, DePalma, and Scorsese. In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 12. 1990. No. 1/2. [May] pp. 29-35.
Description:
Discusses Kubrick’s The Shining, De Palma’s Body Double and Scorsese’s The King of Comedy.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
De Palma, Brian
Scorsese, Martin
Shining, The (1980)
Body Double (1984)
King of Comedy, The (1982)
Humor ~ Humor

#351
Mank, Gregory: The Old Dark House: Elegant gothic comedy. In: American Cinematographer 69. 1988. No. 10. [October] pp. 42-48.
Description:
On the film by James Whale.
Index:
Whale, James
Old Dark House, The (1932)
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#352
Manners, Marilyn / Rutsky, R. L.: Post-human romance: Parody and pastiche in Making Mr. Right and Tank Girl. In: Discourse 21. 1999. No. 2. [Spring] pp. 115-138.
Description:
Feminist analysis.
Index:
Seidelman, Susan
Talalay, Rachel
Making Mr. Right (1987)
Tank Girl (1995)
Humor ~ Humor
Frauen ~ Women

#353
Manning, Craig: License to joke: Parody and camp in and around the James Bond series. In: Film Matters 4. 2013. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 17-23.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor

#354
Manzoli, Giacomo: Diavolo per ridere: L’esorciccio, o leffetto retroattivo di una parodia perfetta. In: Cineforum 41. 2001. No. ?N(401). [January/February] pp. 10-11.
Description:
On Italian horror film parodies, especially on L’esorciccio, a satirical version of William Friedkin’s devil movie The Exorcist.
Index:
Ingrassia, Ciccio
Friedkin, William
esorciccio, L’ (1975)
Exorcist, The (1973)
Religion: Teufel ~ Religion: Devil
Italien ~ Italy
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#355
Markowitz, Andrew: MST-3K earns big screen laughs. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 3. [October] pp. 56-57.
Index:
Mallon, Jim
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1995)
Humor ~ Humor

#356
Marshall, W. R.: Flicks. In: Cinefantastique 12. 1982. No. 1. [February] p. 5.
Description:
On the animated B film satire.
Index:
Henderson, Kirk
Winograd, Peter
Flicks / Loose Joints / Hollyweird (1987)
Animation ~ Animation
Humor ~ Humor
B-Filme ~ B Films

#357
Martin, Kevin H.: Space oddities. In: American Cinematographer 82. 2001. No. 7. [July] pp. 44-55.
Description:
On Ivan Reitman’s science fiction comedy Evolution, especially on the camera work of Michael Chapman.
Index:
Reitman, Ivan
Chapman, Michael
Evolution (2001)
Humor ~ Humor
Technik: Kamera ~ Technology: Camera
Weltraum ~ Space
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#358
Martinez, Dolores: Laughing at the future: Cross-cultural science fiction films. In: Humour, comedy and laughter: Obscenities, paradoxes, insights and the renewal of life. Edited by Lidia Dina Sciama. - New York: Berghahn Books 2016. (= Social identities 8.) p. ?P.
Index:
Utopie ~ Utopia
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor

#359
Marx, Nick: Family Guy: Undermining satire. In: How to watch television. Edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell. - New York: New York University 2013. p. ?P.
Index:
Family Guy (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#360
Marx, Nick / Sienkiewicz, Matt: Beyond a cutout world: Ethnic humor and discursive integration in South Park. In: Journal of Film and Video 61. 2009. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 5-18.
Description:
On the TV series.
Index:
South Park (TV)
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#361
Matheson, Sue: Horror comedy by the book: Grimoire, carnival and heteroglossia in Kenny Ortega’s Hocus Pocus (1993). In: Terrifying texts: Essays on books of good and evil in horror cinema. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 2018. p. 186 ff.
Index:
Ortega, Kenny
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Karneval ~ Carnival
Humor ~ Humor
Literatur ~ Literature
Horror ~ Horror
Böse, Das ~ Evil, The
Gute, Das ~ Good

#362
Matthews, David: Said in jest: Who’s laughing at the Middle Ages (and when)? In: Postmedieval 5. 2014. No. 2. [?D] pp. 126-139.
Index:
Gilliam, Terry
Jones, Terry
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Humor ~ Humor
Geschichte: Mittelalter ~ History: Middle Ages

#363
Matthews, Peter: 12 distinct species of maniacal laughter. In: Sight and Sound NS 7. 1997. No. 7. [July] pp. 6-9.
Description:
On Tommy Lee Jones’s role in Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black.
Index:
Sonnenfeld, Barry
Jones, Tommy Lee
Humor ~ Humor

#364
Mayo, Mike: Videohound’s horror show: 999 hair-rising, hellish, and humorous movies. - Detroit: Visible Ink Press 1998.
Index:
Religion: Hölle ~ Religion: Hell
Video ~ Video
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#365
McCaffrey, Donald W.: Assault on society: Satirical literature to film. - Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press 1992.
Reviews:
Budge, Katy: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 46. 1993. No. 4. [Summer] pp. 27-28.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Humor ~ Humor
Literatur ~ Literature

#366
McClure, Kevin R. / McClure, Lisa Laidlaw: Postmodem parody: Zelig and the rhetorical subversion of documentary form. In: Communication Quarterly 49. 2001. No. 2. [?D] pp. 81-88.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Zelig (1982)
Humor ~ Humor
Dokumentarfilm ~ Documentary Film

#367
McDaniel, David: Filmbook reference guide: From fantasy to comedy. - Baltimore, Maryland: Midnight Marquee Press ?J (1998).
Reviews:
Svehla, Gary J.: [untitled] In: Midnight Marquee 1998. No. 57. [Summer] p. 59.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy

#368
McEntee, Jason T.: The novel-to-film translatability of satire in The Day of the Locust and Wise Blood. In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 17. 2000. No. 3. [?D] pp. 229-243.
Index:
Schlesinger, John
Huston, John
Day of the Locust, The (1975)
Wise Blood (1979)
Humor ~ Humor

#369
McGillivray, D.: Does terror for tots make sense? In: Films and Filming ?G. 1988. No. ?N(406). [?D] pp. 24-27.
Description:
On humoristic elements in the horror film.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#370
McGrath, Charles: The circus comes back to town. In: International Herald Tribune, October 3/4, 2009. pp. 19, 23.
Description:
On the revival of the Monty Python comedy group.
Index:
Zirkus ~ Circus
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Humor ~ Humor

#371
McGregor, A.: Carrey on laughing. In: Time Out 1994. No. 1250. [August 3] p. 18. 20.
Description:
Interview with Jim Carrey, especially on his role in Charles Russell’s The Mask.
Index:
Russell, Charles
Carrey, Jim
Mask, The (1994)
Humor ~ Humor

#372
Mclean, Adrienne L.: If only they had meant to make a comedy: Laughing at Black Swan. In: The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Aronofsky, Darren
Black Swan (2010)
Humor ~ Humor

#373
McLean, Tom: Mutated tech brings laughs, action to Turtles. In: Animation 28. 2014. No. 7. [August/September] pp. 10-14.
Description:
On the special effects for Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Index:
Liebesman, Jonathan
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Schildkröten ~ Turtles
Humor ~ Humor
Action ~ Action

#374
McNab, Geoffrey: Inside the belly. In: Sight and Sound NS 3. 1993. No. 8. [August] pp. 18-21.
Description:
On UFO, the directing debut of comedian Chubby Brown.
Index:
Brown, Chubby
UFO (1993)
Humor ~ Humor

#375
McNamara, Donald Dailey: Alfred Hitchcock’s symbolic fantasies: A comedy of narrative form. - ?O: University of Missouri-Columbia, Ph.D. 1983. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 44. 1984. No. 12. (June) p. 3523A.]
Description:
Discusses, among others, Spellbound, Psycho and Marnie.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Spellbound (1945)
Psycho (1960)
Marnie (1963/1964)
Phantasie ~ Fantasy
Humor ~ Humor

#376
Merritt, Russell: Laugh-O-grams. In: The Walt Disney film archives: The animated movies 1921-1968. Edited by Daniel Kothenschulte. - Köln: Taschen 2016. pp. 7 ff.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Disney ~ Disney
Animation ~ Animation

#377
Merritt, Russell: Laugh-O-grams. In: The Walt Disney film archives: The animated movies 1921-1968. Edited by Daniel Kothenschulte. - Köln: Taschen 2016. pp. 12 ff.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Disney ~ Disney
Animation ~ Animation

#378
Merschmann, Helmut: E.K.G. Expositus: Michael Brynntrups experimentelle TV-Satire. In: EPD Film 21. 2004. No. 4. [April] pp. 46-47.
Index:
Brynntrup, Michael
E.K.G. Expositus (die öffentlichen und die künstlerischen Medien) (2003)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Experimentalfilme ~ Experimental Films

#379
Michel, Jean-Claude: De l’angoisse au rire ... les comedies fantastiques d’Abbot et Costello. In: L’Écran Fantastique 1978. No. 4. [?D] pp. 20-39.
Description:
On Charles Lamont’s Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man.
Index:
Lamont, Charles
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Humor ~ Humor

#380
Mihm, Kai: Nurse Betty: Morgan Freeman als verliebter Killer in Neil LaButes Screwball-Comedy. In: EPD Film 17. 2000. No. 11. [November] p. 39.
Index:
LaBute, Neil
Freeman, Morgan
Nurse Betty (2000)
Mord ~ Murder
Humor ~ Humor

#381
Miller, Cynthia J.: Some assembly required: The do-it-yourself undead. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#382
Miller, Jeffrey S.: The Horror spoofs of Abbott and Costello: A critical assessment of the comedy team’s monster films. - Jefferson, Noth Carolina: McFarland 1999.
Index:
Abbot, Bud
Costello, Lou
Abbott and Costello (Filmreihe)
Monster ~ Monster
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#383
Millington, Richard H.: Hitchcock and American character: The comedy of self-construction in North by Northwest. In: Hitchcock’s America. Edited by Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington. - New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999. pp. 135-154.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
North by Northwest (1959)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor

#384
Modleski, Tania: Rape versus mans/laughter: Hitchcock’s Blackmail and feminist interpretation. In: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 102. 1987. No. 3. [May] pp. 304-315.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Blackmail (1929)
Vergewaltigung ~ Rape
Humor ~ Humor
Frauen ~ Women

#385
Mogilevich, M.: Charlie’s pussycats. In: Film Quarterly 55. 2002. No. 3. [?D] pp. 38-44.
Description:
On the satirical subtexts in McG’s Charlie’s Angels and Josie and the Pussycats by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan.
Index:
McGinty Nichol, Joseph [Pseudonym: McG]
Elfont, Harry
Kaplan, Deborah
Charlie’s Angels (2000)
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Humor ~ Humor

#386
Morrison, James: Wellesian laughter. In: The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Welles, Orson
Humor ~ Humor

#387
Morrison, Ronald D.: Parody as tribute and subversion in Kim Newman’s Coppola’s Dracula. In: Storytelling 3. 2003. No. 1. [?D] pp. 9-12.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
Index:
Coppola, Francis Ford
Apocalypse Now (1976-1979)
Vampire ~ Vampires
Humor ~ Humor

#388
Mühlbeyer, Harald: 007, französisch. In: EPD Film 27. 2010. No. 1. [January] p. 57.
Description:
On a DVD edition of Michel Hazanavicius’s James Bond parody OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d’espions.
Index:
Hazanavicius, Michel
OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d’espions (2006)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor
Frankreich ~ France
DVD ~ DVD

#389
Mühlbeyer, Harald: Psychosenthriller: Der Bunker (Perspektive deutsches Kino) beeindruckt durch seinen absurden Humor. In: EPD Film 32. 2015. No. 4. [April] p. 22.
Description:
On a screening at the 2015 Berlinale.
Index:
Chryssos, Nikias
Bunker, Der (2015)
Thriller ~ Thriller
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Humor ~ Humor
Deutschland ~ Germany
Berlin ~ Berlin

#390
Mühlbeyer, Harald: Schwarzer Humor. In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 8. [August] p. 61.
Description:
On a DVD edition of Scott Sanders’s Black Dynamite.
Index:
Sanders, Scott
Black Dynamite (2009)
Humor ~ Humor
DVD ~ DVD

#391
Mühlbeyer, Harald: Witze wie nie: Dani Levys Nazikomödie Mein Führer. In: EPD Film 25. 2008. No. 1. [January] p. 55.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Levy, Dani
Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (2006)
Humor ~ Humor
Faschismus ~ Fascism
DVD ~ DVD

#392
Mundhenke, Florian: Frankenstein junior. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 364-367.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Humor ~ Humor

#393
Murphy, David P.: Zombies for zombies: Advice and etiquette for the living dead: The world’s bestselling program for the recently bitten. - Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks 2009.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Humor ~ Humor

#394
Murtagh, Kevin J.: Blasphemous humor in South Park. In: South Park and philosophy: You know, I learned something today. Edited by Robert Arp. - Oxford; Malden, Massachussetts: Blackwell 2007. (= Blackwell philosophy and popculture.) p. ?P.
Index:
South Park (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Philosophie ~ Philosophy

#395
Naremore, James: Hitchcock and humor. In: Hitchcock: Past and future. Edited by Richard Allen and Sam Ishii-Gonzales. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Humor ~ Humor

#396
Neupert, Richard: "We’re happy when we’re sad": Comedy, gags, and 1930s cartoon narration. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#397
Newitz, Annalee: What makes things cheesy? Satire, multi-nationalism, and B-movies. In: Social Text ?G. 2000. No. ?N(63). [?D] pp. 59-82.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
B-Filme ~ B Films

#398
Newman, Kim: Moon kampf. In: Sight and Sound NS 22. 2012. No. 5. [May] pp. 44-45.
Description:
On Timo Vuorensola’s Nazi satire Iron Sky.
Index:
Vuorensola, Timo
Iron Sky (2012)
Mond ~ Moon
Humor ~ Humor
Faschismus ~ Fascism

#399
Newton, P. R.: The "unsatisfactory" Western issues in contemporary genre theory. - Coventry: University of Warwick, Ph.D. 2004. [Abstract in: Index to Theses with Abstracts 55-2860.]
Description:
On the interdependency between Western and the musical, the comedy and the science fiction genre. Discusses, as an example, Western motifs in Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future III.
Index:
Zemeckis, Robert
Back to the Future III (1990)
Western-Filme ~ Western Films
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Musik ~ Music
Humor ~ Humor

#400
Niedzielski, Jens: Rumpel-Peng-Comedy: Bubble Fiction... Boom or Burst (Baburu e go!! Taimu mashin wa doramu shiki). In: Splatting Image 2007. No. 71. [September] p. 55.
Index:
Baba, Yasuo
Baburu e go!! Taimu mashin wa doramu-shiki (2007)
Humor ~ Humor

#401
Nobach, Marius: Die Metamorphosen des Walter Mitty: Über die rare Kunst, als Komiker die Gestalt zu wandeln. In: Film-Dienst 67. 2014. No. 1. [January 2] pp. 10-15.
Index:
Stiller, Ben
Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The (2013)
Humor ~ Humor

#402
Nöding, Oliver: Der Film zum Witz: Kings of Rock: Tenacious D. In: F.LM - Texte zum Film. Online edition, March 2007.
Description:
On Liam Lynch’s Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny.
Index:
Lynch, Liam
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006)
Humor ~ Humor

#403
Nöding, Oliver: Der Film zum Witz: Kings of Rock: Tenacious D (Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny). In: Splatting Image 2007. No. 70. [June] pp. 64-65.
Index:
Lynch, Liam
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006)
Humor ~ Humor

#404
Nolte, Andrea: Die Ritter der Kokosnuss. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 371-375.
Description:
On Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Index:
Gilliam, Terry
Jones, Terry
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Humor ~ Humor

#405
Nolte, Andrea: In der Hölle ist der Teufel los. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 214-218.
Description:
On H. C. Potter’s Hellzappopin.
Index:
Potter, H. C.
Hellzappopin (1941)
Humor ~ Humor

#406
Nolte, Andrea: Monty Python - Das Leben des Brian. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 381-384.
Index:
Jones, Terry
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Humor ~ Humor

#407
Norden, Martin F.: "We’re not all dead yet": Humor amid the horror in James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Whale, James
Bride of Frankenstein, The (1935)
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#408
O’Brien, Catherine: Martin Scorsese’s divine comedy: Movies and religion. - London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2018.
Description:
On Dantean motifs in Scorsese’s films.
Index:
Scorsese, Martin
Dante Alighieri
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#409
O’Brien, Daniel: Hercules diminished? Parody, differentiation, and emulation in the Three Stooges meet Hercules. In: Of muscles and men: Essays on the sword and sandal film. Edited by Michael G. Cornelius. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 2011. pp. 187-202.
Index:
Three Stooges (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Herkules ~ Hercules
Mythologie ~ Mythology
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times
Männer ~ Men

#410
O’Pray, Michael: Between slapstick and horror. In: Sight and Sound NS 4. 1994. No. 9. [September] pp. 20-23.
Description:
On the Faust movie by the czech animation filmmaker Jan Svankmajer.
Index:
Svankmajer, Jan
Faust (1994)
Tschechoslowakei ~ Czechoslovakia
Humor ~ Humor
Tschechien ~ Czech
Horror ~ Horror
Animation ~ Animation

#411
Och, Dana: "The sheep are revolting": Becoming-animal in the postcolonial zombie comedy. In: Transnational horror across visual media: Fragmented bodies. Edited by Dana Och and Kirsten Strayer. - New York; London: Routledge 2013. (= Routledge research in cultural and media studies 55.) p. ?P.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation
Körper ~ Bodies
Horror ~ Horror

#412
Ohmer, Susan: Laughter by numbers: The science of comedy at the Walt Disney Studio. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Wissenschaft ~ Science
Disney ~ Disney
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#413
Orlin, Scott / Streck, Carolin: "Machos sind in den 90ern ein Witz". In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1996. No. 1(212). [?D] pp. 52-53.
Description:
Interview with Pierce Brosnan on his role in Martin Campbell’s Goldeneye.
Index:
Campbell, Martin
Brosnan, Pierce
Goldeneye (1995)
Humor ~ Humor

#414
Osmond, Andrew: Men in Black 2: Comedy in SF. In: Cinefantastique 34. 2002. No. 3/4. [June] pp. 42-43.
Index:
Sonnenfeld, Barry
Men in Black II (2002)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor

#415
Osmond, Andrew: Only human. In: Sight and Sound NS 15. 2005. No. 5. [May] pp. 12-15.
Description:
On Douglas Adams’s surreal SF comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its filming by Garth Jennings.
Index:
Adams, Douglas
Jennings, Garth
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)
Surrealismus ~ Surrealism
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Literatur ~ Literature)

#416
Otto, Isabell: Das Gespenst der Freiheit. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 368-371.
Description:
On Luis Buñuel’s Le Fantôme de la liberté.
Index:
Buñuel, Luis
Fantôme de la liberté, Le / fantasma de la libertad, El (1974)
Humor ~ Humor

#417
Palumbo, Donald: Back to the Future: Science fiction film comedy as adolescent wish fulfillment fantasy. In: Palumbo, Donald: The monomyth in American science fiction films: 28 visions of the hero’s journey. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 2014. (= Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy 48.) p. ?P.
Index:
Zemeckis, Robert
Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future (Filmreihe)
Mythologie ~ Mythology
Jugend ~ Youth
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Helden ~ Heros
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)

#418
Palumbo, Donald: The monomyth in Back to the Future: Science fiction film comedy as adolescent wish-fulfillment fantasy. In: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17. 2006. No. 1. [?D] pp. 60-76.
Index:
Zemeckis, Robert
Back to the Future (Filmreihe)
Jugend ~ Youth
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor
Fantasy ~ Fantasy

#419
Pankratz, Anette: The spies who spoofed him: Bond parodies. In: The cultures of James Bond. Edited by Joachim Frenk and Christian Krug. - Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2011. pp. 249 ff.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
James Bond ~ James Bond

#420
Parisi, PaulA: Valkenvania: A haunting comedy. In: American Cinematographer 71. 1990. No. 12. [December] pp. 26-32.
Description:
Especially on the Dean Cundey’s camera work.
Index:
Aykroyd, Dan
Cundey, Dean
Valkenvania / Nothing But Trouble (1990)
Technik: Kamera ~ Technology: Camera
Humor ~ Humor

#421
Paul, William: Laughing, screaming: Modern Hollywood horror and comedy. - New York: Columbia University Press 1994. (= Film and culture.)
Reviews:
Disky, Jenny: Animal farm. In: Sight and Sound NS 4. 1994. No. 8. [August] p. 32.
Dowell, John A.: [untitled] In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 22. 1994. No. 3. [?D] pp. 137-138.
Lewis, Paul: [untitled.] In: Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 8. 1995. No. 4. [?D] pp. 426-429.
Plantinga, Carl: [untitled.] In: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53. 1995. No. 3. [?D] pp. 332-334.
Roberts, Garyn: [untitled.] In: Journal of Popular Culture 28. 1994. No. 2. [?D] pp. 226-227.
Waller, Gregory A.: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 48. 1995. No. 4. [Summer] pp. 50-51.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Mervyn LeRoy’s The Bad Seed, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, Cronenberg’s The Brood and The Fly, Kubrick’s The Shining, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, John Carpenter’s Halloween, Polanski’s Rosemarys Baby, Brian De Palma’s Carrie, Kubrick’s The Shining and the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Index:
Friedkin, William
Carpenter, John
De Palma, Brian
Kubrick, Stanley
Hitchcock, Alfred
Romero, George A.
Cronenberg, David
Kubrick, Stanley
Polanski, Roman
Craven, Wes
LeRoy, Mervyn
Exorcist, The (1973)
Halloween (1978)
Carrie (1976)
Shining, The (1980)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Brood, The (1979)
Fly, The (1986)
Shining, The (1980)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Gewalt ~ Violence
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#422
Paul, William: The rise and fall of animal comedy. In: The Velvet Light Trap 1990. No. 26. [?D] pp. 73-86.
Description:
Discusses, among others, John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London.
Index:
Landis, John
American Werewolf in London, An (1981)
Tiere ~ Animals
Humor ~ Humor

#423
Pech, Rene: Witzig: Der Flug des Navigators. In: Phantastische Zeiten 1988. No. 5(6). p. 36.
Description:
On Randal Kleiser’s Flight of the Navigator.
Index:
Kleiser, Randal
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Humor ~ Humor

#424
Penn, Sheldon: On a road to nowhere: Parodic movement as time-image in La voie lactée and Le charme discret de la bourgeoise In: A companion to Luis Bunuel. Edited by Rob Stone and Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla. - Malden, Massachussetts: Wiley-Blackwell 2013. (= Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.). p. ?P.
Index:
Buñuel, Luis
voie lactee, La / vie lattea, La (1968/1969)
charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le (1972)
Humor ~ Humor

#425
Perlmutter, Ruth: Woody Allen’s Zelig: An American Jewish parody. In: Comedy / Cinema / Theory. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 1991. pp. 206-221.
Reviews:
Gehring, Wes D.: [untitled] In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 20. 1992. No. 2. [?D] p. 38.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Zelig (1982)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Religion: Juden ~ Religion: Jews

#426
Perry, Dennis R.: Humor and horror: Collapsing into unity: Ligeia and The 39 Steps. In: Perry, Dennis R.: Hitchcock and Poe: The legacy of delight and terror. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Scarecrow Press 2003. (= Filmmakers.) p. ?P.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Poe, Edgar Allan
Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1935)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Ligeia (Literatur ~ Literature)

#427
Persons, Dan: Aeon Flux: Thanatophobia: Its black humor and tragedy is the defining vision of the series. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1997. No. 11. [May] pp. 40-41.
Index:
Baker, Howard E.
Chung, Peter
Aeon Flux (TV)
Tod ~ Death
Humor ~ Humor

#428
Persons, Dan: Ren & Stimpy: Voice humor: Billy West on his inspiration for the cat and Chihuahua’s cartoon sound. In: Cinefantastique 26/27. 1995. No. 6/1. [October] pp. 100-101.
Index:
West, Billy
Ren and Stimpy Show, The (TV)
Musik ~ Music
Humor ~ Humor
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons

#429
Persons, Mitch: Carnival clown: Larry Miller. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 5. [May] p. 49.
Description:
On the comedian and his role in Adam Grossman’s Carnival of Souls.
Index:
Miller, Larry
Grossman, Adam
Carnival of Souls / Wes Craven Presents "Carnival of Souls" (1998)
Karneval ~ Carnival
Humor ~ Humor

#430
Persons, Mitch: Galaxy Quest: Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver star in a wicked parody of Star Trek. In: Cinefantastique 31. 2000. No. 10. [February] pp. 8-11.
Index:
Parisot, Dean
Allen, Tim
Weaver, Sigourney
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Böse, Das ~ Evil, The
Humor ~ Humor

#431
Phantastik, Parodie und Phantasie: Arnies neue Actionfilm-Dimension: Last Action Hero. In: Moviestar 1. 1993. No. 3. [Oktober/November] pp. 16-17.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Last Action Hero (1993)
Humor ~ Humor
Phantasie ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#432
Pheasant-Kelly, Fran: Parody, pastiche and intertextuality in Scream: Formal and theoretical approaches to the postmodern slasher. In: Style and form in the Hollywood slasher film. Edited by Wickham Clayton. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2015. p. ?P.
Index:
Craven, Wes
Scream (Filmreihe)
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#433
Picart, Caroline Joan (Kay) S.: Going beyond horror: Fantasy, humor and the Holocaust. In: The fantastic in Holocaust literature and film: Critical perspectives. Edited by Judith B. Kerman and John Edgar Browning. Foreword by Jane Yolen. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Company 2014. (= Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 49.) p. ?P.
Index:
Religion ~ Religion
Literatur ~ Literature
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Religion: Juden ~ Religion: Jews
Holocaust ~ Holocaust

#434
Picart, Caroline Joan S.: Remaking the Frankenstein myth on film: Between laughter and horror. - Albany: State University of New York Press 2003. (= SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture.)
Reviews:
Fay, Jennifer: [untitled] In: Pacific Coast Philology 39. 2004. No. ?N. [?D] pp. 130-133.
Howard III, John W.: [untitled] In: Woman and Language 28. 2005. No. 2. [?D] pp. 42-43.
Index:
Frankenstein (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Frankenstein ~ Frankenstein

#435
Pieri, Françoise: Federico Fellini: Conteur et humoriste, 1939-1942. Avec des textes de Federico Fellini et un entretien inédits. - Perpignan: Institut Jean Vigo 2000. (= Collection Institut Jean Vigo.)
Index:
Fellini, Federico
Humor ~ Humor

#436
Pike, Karen: Bitextual pleasures: Camp, parody, and the fantastic film. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 29. 2001. No. 1. [January] pp. 10-22.
Description:
Discusses especially the three vampire films The Addiction by Abel Ferrara, Nadja by Michael Almereydas and Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm.
Index:
Ferrara, Abel
Almereyda, Michael
Russell, Ken
Addiction, The (1994)
Nadja / Vampire Girl (1994)
Lair of the White Worm, The (1988)
Vampire ~ Vampires
Humor ~ Humor

#437
Pilato, Herbie J.: The Bewitched book: The cosmic companion to TV’s most magical supernatural situation comedy. - New York: Delta Books 1992.
Index:
Bewitched (TV)
Magie ~ Magic
Wunder ~ Miracles
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#438
Pisarska, Katarzyna: Out of the drawer and back again: Utopian satire in Juliusz Machulski ’s Kingsajz. In: Imperfect worlds and dystopian narratives in contemporary cinema. Edited by Arthur Blaim and Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim. - Frankfurt/Main; New York: Peter Lang 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Machulski, Juliusz
Kingsajz (1988)
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Utopie ~ Utopia

#439
Prasch, Thomas: "Oy, have you got the wrong vampire": Dislocation, comic distancing, and political critique in Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Polanski, Roman
Dance of the Vampires / Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967)
Vampire ~ Vampires
Politik ~ Politics
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#440
Preußer, Heinz-Peter: Zur Xenologie der Bugs oder: Das Dilemma der Gewaltparodie in Starship Troopers von Paul Verhoeven. In: Preußer, Heinz-Peter: Transmediale Texturen: Lektüren zum Film und angrenzenden Künsten. - Marburg: Schüren 2013. (= Schriftenreihe zur Textualität des Films 3.) pp. 280-284.
Index:
Verhoeven, Paul
Starship Troopers (1997)
Humor ~ Humor
Gewalt ~ Violence

#441
Preussner, Arnold W.: Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut as Shakespearean tragicomedy. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 29. 2001. No. 4. [October] pp. 290-296.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Shakespeare, William
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Humor ~ Humor

#442
Preussner, Arnold W.: Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo and the genres of comedy. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 16. 1988. No. 1. [January] pp. 39-43.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)
Humor ~ Humor

#443
Radner, Hilary: Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 Going on 30 (2004). In: Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. Edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer. - Oxon; New York: Routledge 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Winick, Gary
13 Going on 30 (2004)
Humor ~ Humor
Romantik ~ Romanticism
Frauen ~ Women
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#444
Rae, Graham: Cannibalistic comedy. In: Cinefantastique 36. 2004. No. 5. [October/November] p. 54.
Description:
On Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead.
Index:
Wright, Edgar
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Kannibalismus ~ Cannibalism
Humor ~ Humor

#445
Rall, Veronika: Cecil B. Demented: Kinoterroristen kämpfen gegen Kitsch in der Satire von John Waters. In: EPD Film 17. 2000. No. 11. [November] p. 44.
Index:
Waters, John
Cecil B. Demented (2000)
Kitsch ~ Kitsch
Humor ~ Humor

#446
Ran, Faye: The tragicomic vision: The fool in modern drama, film, and literature. - New York: Columbia University, Ph.D. 1988. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 51. 1991. No. 8. (February) p. 2737A.]
Description:
Discusses, among others, Fellini’s Julia und die Geister.
Index:
Fellini, Federico
Giulietta degli spiriti (1965)
Humor ~ Humor
Literatur ~ Literature

#447
Ranze, Michael: I Spy: Mit Anspruch auf James-Bond-Parodie - Agenten-Komödie von Betty Thomas. In: EPD Film 20. 2003. No. 1. [January] p. 47.
Index:
Thomas, Betty
I Spy (2002)
Spione ~ Spys
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor

#448
Rawle, Steve: The ultimate super - happy - zombie - romance - murder - mystery - family - comedy - karaoke - disaster - movie - part - animated - remake - all - singing - all- dancing - musical - spectacular - extravaganza: Miike Takashi’s The Happiness of the Katakuris as "cult" hybrid. In: Screening the undead: Vampires and zombies in film and television. Edited by Leon Hunt, Sharon Lockyer and Milly Williamson. - London; New York: I. B. Tauris 2014. p. ?P.
Index:
Miike, Takashi
Katakuri-ke no kôfuku (2001)
Tanz ~ Dance
Musik ~ Music
Mord ~ Murder
Katastrophen ~ Disasters
Humor ~ Humor
Familie ~ Family
Animation ~ Animation
Fernsehen ~ Television
Zombies ~ Zombies
Vampire ~ Vampires
Tod ~ Death

#449
Redi, Craig: King of kung fu comedy. In: Cinefantastique 37. 2005. No. 4. [July] pp. 8 ff.
Description:
Interview with Stephen Chow.
Index:
Chow, Stephen
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Humor ~ Humor

#450
Rees, Shelley S.: The queer and the dead: Transgressive sexuality in Shaun of the Dead. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Wright, Edgar
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#451
Reiff, Michael C.: Better living through zombies: Assessing the allegory of consumerism & empowerment in Andrew Currie’s Fido. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Currie, Andrew
Fido (2006)
Zombies ~ Zombies
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#452
Reijnhoudt, Bram: Hitchcock, dertig jaar later: Vlaflips van humor en spanning In: Skoop 20. 1984. No. 3. [April] pp. 18-21.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Rear Window (1954)
Vertigo (1958)
Humor ~ Humor

#453
Reizen, Olga: Black humor in Soviet cinema. In: Inside soviet film satire: Laughter with a lash. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. (= Cambridge Studies in Film.) pp. 94-97.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Tengis Abuladse’s Monanieba / Pokajanije.
Index:
Abuladse, Tengis
Monanieba / Pokajanije (1984)
Humor ~ Humor
UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken) ~ USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

#454
Rhodes, Gary D.: Undead in the city: The Vampire’s Kiss (1988) and its kin. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Bierman, Robert
Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
Stadt ~ City
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#455
Richardson, Alan: Tractatus comedo-philosophicus. In: Monty Python and philosophy: Nudge nudge, think think! Edited by Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch. - Chicago, Illinois: Open Court 2006. (= Popular culture and philosophy 19.) pp. 217-229.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Monty Python ~ Monty Python

#456
Römer, Patricia: Harold und Maude. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 353-357.
Index:
Ashby, Hal
Harold and Maude (1971)
Humor ~ Humor

#457
Romero Cannona, Vidal: Buscando a Homer: La influcncia de las series de animación en la comedia gamberra. In: Secuencias 2006. No. 24. [?D] pp. 43-51.
Description:
On the influence of American animated TV series on gross-out film comedies.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation ~ Animation

#458
Römpötti, Tommi: Vieteriukko James Bond voittaa venäläiset huumorillaan. In: Filmihullu 1997. No. 6. [?D] pp. 18-22.
Description:
On ideology and humor in the James Bond films.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Politik ~ Politics
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor

#459
Roodnat, J.: James Bond - een verslaving: Aktie, spektakel & humor uit de jaren ’60. In: Skoop 17. 1981. No. 5. [?D] pp. 8-12.
Description:
On the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor

#460
Roschy, Birgit: 3 Engel für Charlie - Volle Power: Pop, Parodie und ein paar Entgleisungen im Sequel des Monats. In: EPD Film 20. 2003. No. 7. [July] p. 50.
Description:
On McG’s Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.
Index:
McGinty Nichol, Joseph [Pseudonym: McG]
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Humor ~ Humor

#461
Roschy, Birgit: Macht euch doch alle mal locker! In: EPD Film 31. 2014. No. 7. [July] pp. 44-47.
Description:
On comedies that deal with the clash of world religions.
Index:
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#462
Roschy, Birgit: Weltverbesserungsmassnahmen: Kurzfilmkompilation mit satirischem Touch. In: EPD Film 22. 2005. No. 8. [August] pp. 50-51.
Index:
Hintzer, Jörg
Hüfner, Jakob
Weltverbesserungsmassnahmen (2005)
Humor ~ Humor

#463
Rosen, Aaron: Laughing at Brian, laughing at Christ: Some reflections on film and modern art. In: Jesus and Brian: Exploring the historical Jesus and his times via Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Edited by Joan E. Taylor. - London; New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark 2015. p. ?P.
Index:
Jones, Terry
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Humor ~ Humor
Geschichte ~ History
Religion ~ Religion

#464
Roth, Lane: Bergsonian comedy and the human machines in Star Wars. In: Film Criticism 4. 1979/1980. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 1-8.
Index:
Lucas, George
Bergson, Henri
Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope / Star Wars (1977/1997)
Humor ~ Humor
Roboter ~ Robots

#465
Röwekamp, Burkhard: Total abgedreht. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 481-484.
Description:
On Tom DiCillo’s Living in Oblivion.
Index:
DiCillo, Tom
Living in Oblivion (1994)
Humor ~ Humor

#466
Röwekamp, Burkhard: Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 454-458.
Description:
On Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day.
Index:
Ramis, Harold
Groundhog Day (1993)
Humor ~ Humor

#467
Royer, Carl / Royer, Diana: Horror, humor, poetry: Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy. In: Royer, Carl / Royer, Diana: The spectacle of isolation in horror films: Dark parades. - New York; London: Haworth Press 2005. p. ?P.
Index:
Raimi, Samuel M.
Evil Dead (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#468
Rußegger, Arno: I assure you there is nothing to fear: Mel Brooks’ Horrorfilmparodie Young Frankenstein. In: Horror-Kultfilme. Hrsg. von Angela Fabris, Jörg Helbig und Arno Rußegger. - Marburg: Schüren 2017. (= Marburger Schriften zur Medienforschung 78.) pp. 39 ff.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Humor ~ Humor
Angst ~ Fear
Horror ~ Horror

#469
Rutter, Carol Chillington: Looking like a child; or, Titus: The comedy. In: Shakespeare Survey 2003. No. 56. [?D] pp. 1-26.
Description:
On Julie Taymor’s Titus.
Index:
Taymor, Julie
Shakespeare, William
Titus (1999)
Jugend ~ Youth
Humor ~ Humor

#470
Ruud, Jay: Back to the Future as quintessential comedy. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 19. 1991. No. 2. [April] pp. 127-133.
Description:
On oedipal patterns in Back to the Future. Includes a bibliography.
Index:
Zemeckis, Robert
Back to the Future (1985)
Ödipus ~ Oedipus
Humor ~ Humor

#471
Saito, Kumiko: Desire in subtext: Gender, fandom, and women’s male-male homoerotic parodies in contemporary Japan. In: Mechademia 2011. No. 6. pp. 171-191.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Männer ~ Men
Japan ~ Japan
Humor ~ Humor
Frauen ~ Women
Animation ~ Animation

#472
Salisbury, Mark: Die laughing! Clive Barker in conversation with Tim Burton. In: Clive Barker’s Shadows in Eden. Edited by Stephen Jones. Introduction by Stephen King. - Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Underwood Miller 1991. pp. 381-385.
Index:
Barker, Clive
Burton, Tim
Humor ~ Humor

#473
Salminen, Kari: Sopimattomasti somaattinen. In: Filmihullu 1997. No. 4/5. [?D] pp. 50-55.
Description:
On the representation of the body in comedy film, especially in the films of Jim Carrey.
Index:
Carrey, Jim
Humor ~ Humor
Körper ~ Bodies

#474
Salza, Giuseppe: L’humour e la paura: Lo "slapstick horror". In: Segnocinema 5. 1985. No. 18. [?D] p. 41.
Description:
On the Brussels Festival of fantastic film with emphasis on "humor in the horror film".
Index:
Angst ~ Fear
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Festival ~ Festival
Brüssel ~ Brussels

#475
Sammond, Nicholas: "Who dat say who dat?" Racial masquerade, humor, and the rise of American animation. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#476
Sandner, David: Shooting for the moon: Méliès, Verne, Wells, and the imperial satire. In: Extrapolation 39. 1998. No. 4. [?D] pp. 5-25.
Index:
Méliès, Georges
Verne, Jules
Wells, Herbert George
Mond ~ Moon
Humor ~ Humor

#477
Savage Jr., William J.: "So television’s responsible!": Oppositionality and the interpretive logic of satire and censorship in The Simpsons and South Park. In: Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture. Edited by John Alberti. - Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press 2003. (= Contemporary approaches to film and television.) pp. 197-224.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
South Park (TV)
Zensur ~ Censorship
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#478
Scheck, Ulrich: Where no woman has gone before: Humour and gender crossing in Star Trek’s Voyager and Enterprise. In: Gender and laughter: Comic affirmation and subversion in traditional and modern media. Edited by Gaby Pailer [et al.]. - Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi 2009. (= Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 70.) p. ?P.
Index:
Star Trek - Voyager (TV)
Enterprise / Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Star Trek ~ Star Trek
Frauen ~ Women
Humor ~ Humor
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#479
Schifferle, Hans: Ritter aus Leidenschaft: Brian Helgeland mischt Mythos und Witz. In: EPD Film 18. 2001. No. 9. [September] pp. 31-32.
Description:
On A Knight’s Tale.
Index:
Helgeland, Brian
Knight’s Tale, A (2001)
Mythologie ~ Mythology
Humor ~ Humor

#480
Schorb, Bernd / Theunert, Helga: Chaos und Witz knocken He-Man aus. In: Televizion 5. 1992. No. 1. [?D] pp. 6-12.
Description:
How childs and teenagers deal with animation films.
Index:
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Jugend ~ Youth
Animation ~ Animation

#481
Schott, Gareth: Digital dead: Translating the visceral and satirical elements of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead to videogames. In: Zombies are us: Essays on the humanity of the walking dead. Edited by Christopher M. Moreman and Cory James Rushton. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland 2011. pp. 141 ff.
Index:
Romero, George A.
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Zombies ~ Zombies
Video ~ Video
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Humor ~ Humor

#482
Schuman, Michael: Will Smith: "I like blending a message with comedy". - Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers 2006. (= African-American biography library.)
Index:
Smith, Will
Humor ~ Humor

#483
Seeley, Tracy: O Brother, what art thou? Postmodern pranksterism, or parody with a purpose? In: Post Script 27. 2008. No. 2. [Winter/Spring] pp. 97-106.
Index:
Coen, Ethan
Coen, Joel
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Humor ~ Humor

#484
Selbo, Jule Britt: The constructive use of film genre for the screenwriter: Creating film genre’s mental space. - Exeter: University of Exeter, Ph.D. 2011. [Abstract in: Index to Theses with Abstracts 61-10891.]
Description:
Discusses, among others, the western, comedy and horror genre.
Index:
Western-Filme ~ Western Films
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#485
Senn, Bryan: Comedy game: The Pest (1997). In: Senn, Bryan: The most dangerous cinema: People hunting people on film. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland 2014. p. ?P.
Index:
Miller, Paul
Pest, The (1997)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Jagd ~ Hunt

#486
Seven, Hauke: A self-fulfilling parody: Die Genreparodie Evil Ed und das Wunder der Zensur. In: Der skandinavische Horrorfilm: Kultur- und ästhetikgeschichtliche Perspektiven. Hrsg. von Niels Penke. - Bielefeld: Transcript 2013. (= Film.) pp. 129 ff.
Index:
Jacobsson, Anders
Evil Ed (1995)
Zensur ~ Censorship
Wunder ~ Miracles
Humor ~ Humor
Skandinavien ~ Scandinavia
Horror ~ Horror

#487
Seyboth, Patrick: Embedded Journalism: Die ätzende Mediensatire Mann beißt Hund von 1992. In: EPD Film 30. 2013. No. 7. [July] p. 59.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Belvaux, Rémy
Bonzel, André
Poelvoorde, Benoît
C’est arrivé prés de chez vous (1992)
Humor ~ Humor
DVD ~ DVD

#488
Shaham, Inbar: Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister: A romantic comedy within HBO’s Game of Thrones. In: Mythlore 33. 2015. No. 2(?N). [?D] pp. 51-73.
Index:
Game of Thrones (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
HBO ~ HBO
Romantik ~ Romanticism

#489
Shull, Anne / Shull, Ira: The candide of Sunnydale: Andrew Wells as satire of pop culture and marketing trends. In: Buffy goes dark: Essays on the final two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on television. Edited by Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo and James B. South. Foreword by David Lavery. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#490
Sickels, Robert C.: "We’re in a tight spot!": The Coen brothers’ screwy romantic comedies. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 36. 2008. No. 3. [?D] pp. 114-122.
Index:
Coen, Ethan
Coen, Joel
Humor ~ Humor
Romantik ~ Romanticism

#491
Siegal, Mark: Ozymandias melancholia: The nature of parody in Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 13. 1985. No. 2. [April] pp. 77-84.
Description:
Discusses Stardust Memories as a parody on Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Fellini, Federico
Stardust Memories (1980)
Otto e mezzo / Huit et demi (1962)
Humor ~ Humor

#492
Simensky, Linda: The revival of the studio-era cartoon in the 1990s. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#493
Simon, William G.: Welles: Bakhtin: parody. In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 12. 1990. No. 1/2. [?D] pp. 23-28.
Description:
On parodistic elements in the films of Orson Welles, especially in Mr. Arkadin. The author uses the theories of Michaul Bakhtin to discuss that issue.
Index:
Welles, Orson
Bakhtin, Michail Michailowitsch
Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (1955)
Humor ~ Humor

#494
Simpson, Phil: Introducing "The little Spielberg": Roland Emmerich’s Joey as reverent parody. In: Caligari’s heirs: The German cinema of fear after 1945. Edited by Steffen Hantke. - Lanham, Maryland; Toronto, Plymouth: Scarecrow Press 2007. pp. 113 ff.
Index:
Emmerich, Roland
Joey (1985)
Humor ~ Humor
Deutschland ~ Germany
Horror ~ Horror
Angst ~ Fear

#495
Smith, Greg: "Real horror show": The juxtaposition of subtext, satire, and audience implication in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 25. 1997. No. 4. [October] pp. 300-306.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Shining, The (1980)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#496
Smith, Gregory O.: Jolly old sports: English character, comedy, and cricket in The Lady Vanishes. In: Film & History 42. 2012. No. 2. [Fall] pp. 55-70.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
Sport ~ Sports
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#497
Smith, Justin: Making Ben-Hur look like an epic: Monty Python at the movies. In: British comedy cinema. Edited by I. Q. Hunter and Laraine Porter. - Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge 2012. (= British popular cinema.) p. ?P.
Index:
Monty Python ~ Monty Python
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#498
Solidarnosc, Satire, Science Fiction: On the road. - Zprich: Filmstellen VSETH/VSU 1995. (= Dokumentation Sommer 1995.)
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#499
"Spezieller Sinn für Humor": Die South Park-Macher Trey Parker und Matt Stone über ihre Schulerlebnisse und Erfolg in Hollywood. In: Der Spiegel 53. 1999. No. 33. [August 16] p. 105.
Index:
Parker, Trey
Stone, Matt
South Park (TV)
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Humor ~ Humor
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#500
Stahl, Eric: Der wahre Kirk? U.S.S. Highlander. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1996. No. 9(220). [?D] p. 16.
Description:
On Robert Amper’s parody on the Star Trek series.
Index:
Amper, Robert
U.S.S. Highlander (TV)
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#501
Stauder, Th.: Buñuels Hamlet: Parodie, Travestie oder surrealistische Burleske? In: Hispanorama 62. 1993. pp. 68-81.
Index:
Buñuel, Luis
Humor ~ Humor
Surrealismus ~ Surrealism

#502
Steinle, Matthias: Dr. Seltsam oder Wie ich lernte, die Bombe zu lieben. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 322-327.
Description:
On Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Humor ~ Humor

#503
Steinle, Matthias: Zelig. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 388-391.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Zelig (1982)
Humor ~ Humor

#504
Stemmann, Anna: Märchenspuren in Springfield: Die Simpsons und das parodistische Spiel mit dem Erzählfundus. In: Märchen im Medienwechsel: Zur Geschichte und Gegenwart des Märchenfilms. Hrsg. von Ute Dettmar, Claudia Maria Pecher und Ron Schlesinger. - Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2017. pp. 347 ff.
Index:
Simpsons, The (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Märchen ~ Fairy Tales

#505
Sterneborg, Anke: Die Reise des Antihelden. In: EPD Film 31. 2014. No. 12. [December] p. 24.
Description:
On British comedian Martin Freeman and his role als "Bilbo" in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films.
Index:
Freeman, Martin
Jackson, Peter
Hobbit, The (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Helden ~ Heros
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#506
Sterneborg, Anke: Schreib mal wieder! Eine Terry-Pratchet-Verfilmung mit Witz und Atmosphäre. In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 1. [January] p. 59.
Description:
On a DVD edition of Jon Jones’s Going Postal.
Index:
Jones, Jon
Pratchet, Terry
Going Postal (2010)
Humor ~ Humor
DVD ~ DVD

#507
Sterritt, David: Laughs and deep themes. In: Terry Gilliam: Interviews. Edited by David Sterritt and Lucille Rhodes. - Jackson, Mississippi; London: University Press of Mississippi 2004. (= Conversations with filmmakers.) pp. 16 ff.
Index:
Gilliam, Terry
Humor ~ Humor

#508
Sterritt, David: Wrenching departures: mortality and absurdity in avant-garde film. In: The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Experimentalfilme ~ Experimental Films
Humor ~ Humor

#509
Stetz, Margaret D.: British women’s comic fiction, 1890-1990: Not drowning, but laughing. - Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate 2001.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain
Frauen ~ Women
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Animation ~ Animation

#510
Stetz, Margaret D.: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Laughing with the Captain in the house. In: Studies in the Novel 28. 1996. No. 1. [?D] pp. 93-112.
Index:
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)
Humor ~ Humor

#511
Stiglegger, Marcus: Der letzte Tango in Paris. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 202-208.
Description:
On Bernardo Bertolucci’s Le dernier tango à Paris.
Index:
Bertolucci, Bernardo
ultimo tango a Parigi, L’ / dernier tango a Paris, Le (1972)
Humor ~ Humor

#512
Stiglegger, Marcus: Im Reich der Sinne. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 229-233.
Description:
On Nagisa Oshima’s Ai no corrida.
Index:
Oshima, Nagisa
Ai no corrida / empire des sens, L’ (1976)
Humor ~ Humor

#513
Stiglegger, Marcus: True Romance. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 339-343.
Index:
Scott, Tony
True Romance (1993)
Humor ~ Humor

#514
Strebin, Sean: Joe’s Apartment: An all singing all dancing romantic musical cockroach comedy! In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 1. [August] pp. 10-11.
Index:
Payson, John
Joe’s Apartment (1996)
Tanz ~ Dance
Musik ~ Music
Humor ~ Humor
Romantik ~ Romanticism

#515
Strecker, Damien: No laughing matter: Spencer Williams, Jr.’s Christian moral vision in The Blood of Jesus. In: Black Camera 20. 2005. No. 2. [Fall/Winter] pp. 5-6.
Index:
Williams, Spencer
Blood of Jesus, The (1941)
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#516
Switzer, Judith Anne: Stanley Kubrick: The filmmaker as satirist. - New York: New York University, Ph.D. 1981. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 43. 1982. No. 5. (November) p. 1324A.]
Description:
Detailed analysis of Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and The Shining.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Shining, The (1980)
Humor ~ Humor

#517
Symons, Alex: Adapting film parody for the sitcom format: Mel Brooks’s When Things Were Rotten (1975) and The Nutt House (1989). In: Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 5. 2012. No. 1. [March] pp. 65-78.
Index:
Brooks, Mel
When Things Were Rotten (TV)
Nutt House, The (TV)
Humor ~ Humor

#518
Teatini, Manuela: Enviroment comedies: Conversazione con David Lynch. In: Cinema & Cinema NS 17. 1990. No. 59. [?D] pp. 97-99.
Index:
Lynch, David
Natur ~ Nature
Humor ~ Humor

#519
Teichmann, Julia: Ein Bier für den lieben Gott: Drei Stunden: Humorvoll-zeitgemäße Liebeskomödie. In: Film-Dienst 66. 2013. No. 15. [July 18] p. 47.
Index:
Kunz, Boris
Drei Stunden (2012)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor

#520
Telotte, J. P.: Spatial presence and Disney’s Oswald comedies. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 39. 2011. No. 3. [?D] pp. 141-148.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Disney ~ Disney
Animation ~ Animation

#521
Thein, Karel: King of comedy in the realm of good and evil. In: MovEast ?G. 1997/1998. No. 4. [?D] pp. 140-160.
Description:
On John Woo’s Face/Off.
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Face/Off (1997)
Humor ~ Humor
Gute, Das ~ Good
Böse, Das ~ Evil, The

#522
Therien, Gilles: Constitution du sujet parodique dans l’imaginaire du cinema. In: Dire la parodie: Colloque de Cerisy. Ed. par Clive Thomson et Alain Pages. - New York: Peter Lang 1989. (= American University studies II. Romance languages and literature 91.) pp. 341-360.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Woody Allen’s Zelig.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Zelig (1982)
Humor ~ Humor

#523
Thomé-Gomez, Françoise: Le péplum et sa parodie. In: Le péplum: L’Antiquité au cinéma. Dirigée par Claude Aziza. (= Cinémaction 1998. No. 89. [?D]) pp. 75-83.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
Index:
Jones, Terry
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Humor ~ Humor
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times

#524
Thompson, Ethan: "I am not down with that": King of the Hill and sitcom satire. In: Journal of Film and Video 61. 2009. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 38-51.
Description:
On the TV series.
Index:
King of the Hill (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television

#525
Thompson, Kirsten: Animation. In: Comedy: A geographic and historical guide. Edited by Maurice Charney. - Westport, Connecticut: Praeger 2005. p. ?P.
Index:
Animation ~ Animation
Humor ~ Humor

#526
Timonen, Lauri: Werner Herzog & hullun kuvastin / Klaus Kinski: Parodian partaalta mestaruuden taivaskosketuksiin. In: Filmihullu 2003. No. 6. [?D] pp. 4-15.
Description:
On the collaboration between the director and the actor.
Index:
Herzog, Werner
Kinski, Klaus
Humor ~ Humor

#527
Toles, George: Time’s timing and the threat of laughter in Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. In: The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Roeg, Nicolas
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Humor ~ Humor

#528
Tolstykh, Valentin: Soviet film satire yesterday and today. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Andreyev. In: Inside soviet film satire: Laughter with a lash. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. (= Cambridge Studies in Film.) pp. 17-19.
Description:
Includes some fantastic films.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken) ~ USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

#529
Toppe, Jana: Night of the Laughing Dead. In: F.LM - Texte zum Film. Online edition, November 2009.
Description:
On Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland.
Index:
Fleischer, Ruben
Zombieland (2009)
Humor ~ Humor

#530
Toppe, Jana: Reversing the Gospel of Jesus: How the zombie theme satirizes the resurrection of the body and the Eucharist. In: Roman Catholicism in fantastic film: Essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery. Edited by Regina Hansen. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Company 2011. pp. 196-182.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Körper ~ Bodies
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion

#531
Trahair, Lisa: The ghost in the machine: The comedy of technology in the cinema of Buster Keaton. In: South Atlantic Quarterly 101. 2002. No. 3. [?D] p. ?P.
Index:
Keaton, Buster
Technik ~ Technology
Humor ~ Humor
Geister ~ Ghosts

#532
Tueth, Michael: Reeling with laughter: American film comedies - From anarchy to mockumentary. - Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press 2012.
Description:
Includes, among others, chapters on Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein and the animated South Park TV series.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Brooks, Mel
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
South Park (TV)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation ~ Animation

#533
Tueth, Michael V.: Back to the drawing board: The family in animated television comedy. In: Prime time animation: Television animation and American culture. Edited by Carola A. Stabile and Mark Harrison. - London; New York: Routledge 2003. p. ?P.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Familie ~ Family
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation ~ Animation

#534
Turner, Jean: The Golden Child: Fantasy, comedy, adventure. In: American Cinematographer 68. 1987. No. 1. [January] pp. 50-54.
Index:
Ritchie, Michael
Golden Child, The (1986)
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Humor ~ Humor
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#535
Turnock, Julie: Patient research on the slapstick lots: From trick men to special effects artists in silent Hollywood. In: Early Popular Visual Culture 13. 2015. No. 2. [May] pp. 152-173.
Index:
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Technik ~ Technology
Stummfilm ~ Silent Film
Humor ~ Humor
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#536
Tüxsen, Cornelia: Tausendschönchen. Kein Märchen. In: Filmgenres: Komödie. Hrsg. von Heinz-B. Heller und Matthias Steinle. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2005. pp. 331-335.
Description:
On Vera Chytilová’s Sedmikrásky.
Index:
Chytilová, Vera
Sedmikrásky (1966)
Humor ~ Humor

#537
Tyree, J. M.: Unsafe houses: Moonrise Kingdom and Wes Anderson’s conflicted comedies of escape. In: Film Quarterly 66. 2013. No. 4. [Summer] p. ?P.
Index:
Anderson, Wes
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Humor ~ Humor

#538
Urbano, Cosimo: A question of narrative: Notes on a radical horror parody. In: Cineaction 1995. No. 37. [?D] pp. 29-37.
Description:
On Marleen Gorris’s De stilte rond Christine M..
Index:
Gorris, Marleen
stilte rond Christine M., De (1981)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#539
Vahrson, Jutta: Architekt bis Zombie: Das Jobtraum-Filmbuch. - Frankfurt/Main: Butterbrot Books 2010.
Description:
Satirical essays on several film characters.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Humor ~ Humor
Architektur ~ Architecture

#540
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin: Undead anarchy in Ghostbusters. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Reitman, Ivan
Ghostbusters (1984)
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#541
Velarde, Robert: Humor: Monsters, Inc.: "These are the jokes, kid?". In: Velarde, Robert: The wisdom of Pixar: An animated look at virtue. - Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press 2010. p. ?P.
Index:
Docter, Pete
Silverman, David
Unkrich, Lee
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation
Pixar [Firma] ~ Pixar [Company]
Religion ~ Religion

#542
Vieira, Joao Luiz: Hegemony and resistance: Parody and carnival in Brazilian cinema. - New York: New York University, Ph.D. 1984. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 46. 1985. No. 1. (July) p. 3A.]
Description:
On Brasilian movie parodies on Samson and Delilah, Jaws and King Kong.
Index:
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Spielberg, Steven
Cooper, Merian C.
Schoedsack, Ernest B.
Samson and Delilah (1950)
Jaws (1975)
King Kong (1931-1933)
Karneval ~ Carnival
Humor ~ Humor
Brasilien ~ Brazil

#543
Vigouroux-Frey, Nicole: Vingt ans après: Sacré Gral! ou l’humour des Mony Python (1974). In: Humoresques 1995. No. 6. [?D] pp. 115-127.
Description:
On the parody on the myth of King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Index:
Gilliam, Terry
Jones, Terry
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Artus-Sage ~ Arthurian Legend
Religion ~ Religion
Mythologie ~ Mythology
Humor ~ Humor
Religion: Gral ~ Religion: Grail

#544
Vitaris, Paula: X-Files: Making humbug: Behind the scenes of the show’s popular "comedy of horrors". In: Cinefantastique 26/27. 1995. No. 6/1. [October] pp. 64-66.
Index:
X-Files, The (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#545
Volk, Stefan: Filmmaker & Comedian: Gespräch mit Michael "Bully" Herbig. In: Film-Dienst 60. 2007. No. 23. [November 8] pp. 46-47.
Description:
Interview with the director of Lissi und der wilde Kaiser, a parody of the Sissy films.
Index:
Herbig, Michael
Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (2007)
Sissi (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor

#546
Volk, Stefan: Lissi und der wilde Kaiser. In: Film-Dienst 60. 2007. No. 22. [October 25] p. 52.
Description:
On Michael "Bully" Herbig’s animated parody of the Sissi films.
Index:
Herbig, Michael
Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (2007)
Sissi (Filmreihe)
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#547
Volk, Stefan: Travestie, Hommage, Satire: Über den Wandel der Ironie im Genrekino. In: Film-Dienst 57. 2004. No. 18. [September 2] pp. 6-9.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor

#548
Vossen, Ursula: Matador. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 271-275.
Index:
Almodóvar, Pedro
Matador (1986)
Humor ~ Humor

#549
Vossen, Ursula: Sturmhöhe. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 75-80.
Description:
On William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights.
Index:
Wyler, William
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Humor ~ Humor

#550
Wagner, Chuck: Multiplicity: Michael Keaton clones himself in an effects laugh fest. In: Cinefantastique 27. 1996. No. 11/12. [July] pp. 22-23.
Index:
Ramis, Harold
Keaton, Michael
Multiplicity (1996)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Gentechnik ~ Genetics
Humor ~ Humor

#551
Walsh, Richard: Barabbas rewrites the cross: Parody or parable? In: Images of the word: Hollywood’s Bible and beyond. Edited by David Shepherd. - Boston: Brill Leiden / Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature 2008. (= Society of Biblical Literature Semeia studies 54.) p. ?P.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Religion ~ Religion
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#552
Walters, Ben: Divine comedy: Multiple Maniacs. In: Sight and Sound NS 27. 2017. No. 5. [May] p. 101.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Waters, John
Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Religion ~ Religion
Humor ~ Humor
DVD ~ DVD

#553
Wardle, Paul: Urban Legends: Final Cut: Another stab at the ’teen horror genre. In: Cinefantastique 32. 2000. No. 3. [October] pp. 44-47.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the special effects and the humoristic aspects in the film by John Ottman.
Index:
Ottman, John
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror

#554
Warlick, Debra: Austin Powers: Writer-comedian Mike Myers on his swinging ’60s spoof. In: Cinefantastique 29. 1997. No. 2. [August] p. 58.
Index:
Roach, Jay
Myers, Mike
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Humor ~ Humor

#555
Weber, Bruce: Digging out the humor in a serial killer’s tale. In: New York Times, April 4, 1999. p. AR11(N), AR11(L), col 1.
Description:
On Mary Harron’s American Psycho.
Index:
Harron, Mary
American Psycho (2000)
Mord ~ Murder
Humor ~ Humor

#556
Webley, Steve: "The limeys are coming, Barbara, and they’re laughing!" The art of the romeroesque in Shaun of the Dead and Dead Set. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Wright, Edgar
Demange, Yann
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Dead Set (2008)
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#557
Weerts, Falko: De Apparatspott: Die Science-Fiction Story der Sulinger filmemoker. - Kirchweyhe: Weerts 2007.
Description:
On a German Star Trek parody.
Index:
Hermann, Martin
Apparatspott, De (Filmreihe)
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Humor ~ Humor
Deutschland ~ Germany

#558
Weik von Mossner, Alexa: Love in the times of ecocide: Environmental trauma and comic relief in Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E. In: Eco-trauma cinema. Edited by Anil Narine. - Abingdon; New York: Routledge 2015. (= Routledge advances in film studies 33.) pp. 164-179.
Index:
Stanton, Andrew
WALL-E (2008)
Traum ~ Dreams
Humor ~ Humor
Natur ~ Nature

#559
Weinsheimer, Stefanie: 9 1/2 Wochen. In: Filmgenres: Melodram und Liebeskomödie. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner und Jürgen Felix. - Stuttgart: Reclam 2007. pp. 261-265.
Index:
Lyne, Adrian
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
Humor ~ Humor

#560
Wells, Kimberly: Screaming, flying, and laughing: Magical Feminism’s witches in contemporary film, television, and novels. - College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University, Ph.D. 2007. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 68. 2007. No. 6. (December)]
Description:
On "Magical Feminism" in science-fiction and fantasy literature, film and television.
Index:
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Religion: Hexen ~ Religion: Witches
Magie ~ Magic
Literatur ~ Literature
Humor ~ Humor
Frauen ~ Women
Fernsehen ~ Television
Fantasy ~ Fantasy

#561
Wells, Paul: The Chaplin effect: Ghosts in the machine and animated gags. In: Funny pictures: Animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood. Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Chaplin, Charles Spencer
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Technik ~ Technology
Geister ~ Ghosts
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Humor ~ Humor
Animation ~ Animation

#562
Wells, Paul: The sight of 40 year old genitalia too disgusting, is it: Wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation 1900-present. In: British comedy cinema. Edited by I. Q. Hunter and Laraine Porter. - Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge 2012. (= British popular cinema.) p. ?P.
Index:
Animation ~ Animation
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#563
Welsh, Andrew: Arthurian romance. In: Comedy: A geographic and historical guide. Edited by Maurice Charney. - Westport, Connecticut: Praeger 2005. p. ?P.
Index:
Artus-Sage ~ Arthurian Legend
Humor ~ Humor

#564
Wernblad, Annette: Brooklyn is not expanding: Woody Allen’s comic universe. - Cranbury, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press / London: Associated University Presses1992.
Reviews:
Desser, David: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 46. 1993. No. 4. [Summer] pp. 32-33.
Description:
On the Schlemihl figures in the films of Woody Allen, especially in Sleeper.
Index:
Allen, Woody
Sleeper (1973)
Humor ~ Humor
New York ~ New York

#565
West, Ann Adele: Comedie noire thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock: Genres, psychoanalysis, and woman’s image. - Berkeley, California: University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. 1982. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 44. 1983. No. 1. (July) p. 3A.]
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
Humor ~ Humor
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Thriller ~ Thriller
Film Noir ~ Film Noir
Frauen ~ Women

#566
Whittaker, Tom: Out of place, out of synch: Errant movement and rhythm in Buñuel’s Mexican comedies. In: A companion to Luis Bunuel. Edited by Rob Stone and Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla. - Malden, Massachussetts: Wiley-Blackwell 2013. (= Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.) p. ?P.
Index:
Buñuel, Luis
Mexiko ~ Mexico
Humor ~ Humor

#567
Wielebska, Kamila: Laughter in the doll house: On Victorian surrealism in Walerian Borowczyk’s films. In: Boro, l’île d’amour: The films of Walerian Borowczyk. Edited by Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, and Michal Oleszczyk. - New York: Berghahn Books 2015. p. ?P.
Index:
Borowczyk, Walerian
Surrealismus ~ Surrealism
Humor ~ Humor

#568
Williams, Linda Ruth: The laughter of robots. In: The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema. Edited by Murray Pomerance. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2013. (= Contemporary approaches to film and media.) p. ?P.
Index:
Roboter ~ Robots
Humor ~ Humor

#569
Williams, Tony: Full Moon High: A 1980s anarchistic comedy. In: Thalia 17. 1997. No. 1/2. [?D] pp. 69-79.
Index:
Cohen, Larry
Full Moon High (1981)
Humor ~ Humor

#570
Williamson, J. W.: Hillibilly with attitude. In: Film Comment 28. 1992. No. 1. [January/February] pp. 38-39.
Description:
On Hillibilly parodies in Daniel Boyd’s Paradise Park and Strangest Dreams.
Index:
Boyd, Daniel
Paradise Park (1991)
Invasion of the Space Preachers / Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers (1990)
Humor ~ Humor

#571
Winikoff, Ken: Captain Zoom: STARZ! cable’s quirky ’50s sci-fi parody heads for TV syndication in November. In: Cinefantastique 27. 1995. No. 2. [November] pp. 38-39, 61.
Description:
Especially on the producer Brian Levant.
Index:
Tash, Max
Levant, Brian
Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995)
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Fernsehen ~ Television

#572
Winokur, Mark: American laughter: Immigrants, ethnicity, and 1930s Hollywood film comedy. - New York: St. Martin’s Press 1996.
Reviews:
Maland, Charles: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 51. 1997. No. 1. [Fall] pp. 39-40.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Charly Chaplin’s Modern Times and Leo McCarey’s Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.
Index:
Chaplin, Charles Spencer
McCarey, Leo
Modern Times (1936)
Duck Soup (1933)
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
Marx Brothers ~ Marx Brothers
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Humor ~ Humor
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#573
Wolf, Martin: "Narkose des Herzens". In: Der Spiegel 56. 2002. No. 49. [December 2] pp. 186-188.
Description:
Interview with John Cleese on his role in the new James Bond movie Die Another Day and on the British humor in general.
Index:
Cleese, John
Tamahori, Lee
Die Another Day (2002)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Humor ~ Humor
Großbritannien ~ Great Britain

#574
Woolfolk, Alan: Deceit, desire, and dark comedy: Postmodern dead ends in Blood Simple. In: The philosophy of the Coen brothers. Edited by Mark T. Conrad. - Lexington, Kentucky: Kentucky University Press 2009. (= The philosophy of popular culture.) pp. 79-90.
Index:
Coen, Joel
Blood Simple (1984)
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Humor ~ Humor

#575
Workman, Travis: Parodies of realism at the margins of science fiction: Jang Jun-Hwan’s Save the Green Planet and Sin Sang-ok’s Pulgasari. In: Simultaneous worlds: Global science fiction cinema. Edited by Jennifer Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells. - Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press 2015. p. ?P.
Index:
Jang Joon-Hwan
Shin Sang-ok
Jigureul jikyeora! (2003)
Pulgasari (1985)
Humor ~ Humor
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#576
Worschech, Rudolf: Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler: Daniel Levys Hitler-Satire mit Helge Schneider. In: EPD Film 24. 2007. No. 1. [January] pp. 36-37.
Index:
Levy, Dani
Hitler, Adolf
Schneider, Helge
Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (2006)
Humor ~ Humor

#577
Wyke, Maria: Silent laughter and the counter-historical: Buster Keaton’s Three Ages (1923). In: The ancient world in silent cinema. Edited by Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke. - Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2013. p. ?P.
Index:
Cline, Edward [Pseudonym: Cline, Eddie]
Keaton, Buster
Three Ages (1923)
Humor ~ Humor
Geschichte ~ History
Stummfilm ~ Silent Film
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times

#578
Yacowar, Maurice: Loser take all: The comic art of Woody Allen. New expanded edition. - New York: Continuum Publishing 1991.
First edition:
[New York: Ungar 1979]
Index:
Allen, Woody
Humor ~ Humor

#579
Yakovlev, N.: Lyrical, humorous, humane. In: Soviet Film 1984. No. 9(?N). [?D] pp. 36-38.
Description:
On the ukrainian cartoon film.
Index:
Lyrik ~ Lyrics
Ukraine ~ Ukraine
Humor ~ Humor
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
Animation ~ Animation

#580
Yogerst, Chris: Rules for surviving a horror comedy: Satiric genre transformation from Scream to Zombieland. In: The laughing dead: The horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Craven, Wes
Fleischer, Ruben
Scream (1996)
Scream (Filmreihe)
Zombieland (2009)
Horror ~ Horror
Humor ~ Humor

#581
Younf, Vernon: The Hidden Fortress: Kurosawa’s comic mode. In: Perspectives on Akira Kurosawa. Edited by James Goodwin. - New York: G. K. Hall / Don Mills, Ontario: Maxwell Macmillan Canada 1994. (= Perspectives on film.) pp. 151-156.
Description:
On Kurosawa’s Kakushi toride no sanakunin.
Index:
Kurosawa, Akira
Kakushi toride no sanakunin (1958)
Humor ~ Humor

#582
Youngblood, Denise J.: "We don’t know what to laugh at": Comedy and satire in Soviet cinema (from The Miracle Worker to St. Jorgen’s Feast Day). In: Inside soviet film satire: Laughter with a lash. Edited by Andrew Horton. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. (= Cambridge Studies in Film.) pp. 36-47.
Description:
On Chudesnitsa by Aleksandr Medvedkin and Prasdnik swjatowo Jorgena by Yakov Protazanov.
Index:
Medvedkin, Aleksandr
Protazanov, Yakov Alexandrovich
Chudesnitsa (1936)
Prasdnik swjatowo Jorgena (1930)
Humor ~ Humor
UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken) ~ USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

#583
Yu, Catherine: Is it okay to laugh at South Park? In: South Park and philosophy: You know, I learned something today. Edited by Robert Arp. - Oxford; Malden, Massachussetts: Blackwell 2007. (= Blackwell philosophy and popculture.) p. ?P.
Index:
South Park (TV)
Humor ~ Humor
Philosophie ~ Philosophy

#584
Zeck, Jeanne-Marie: Stumbling toward ecstasy: Cyrano de Bergerac as comedy in Martin’s Roxanne and Wells’s The Truth About Cats and Dogs. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 27. 1999. No. 3. [July] pp. 218-22.
Index:
Schepisi, Fred
Martin, Steve
Lehmann, Michael
Wells, Audrey
Roxanne (1987)
Truth About Cats and Dogs, The (1996)
Humor ~ Humor

#585
Zeckau, Katharina: Kingsman - The Secret Service: Zynische Parodie auf Agentenfilme. In: Film-Dienst 68. 2015. No. 5. [March 5] p. 49.
Index:
Vaughn, Matthew
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Spione ~ Spys
Humor ~ Humor

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