Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema

SUMARIO. PART I: General Introductions / 1. From Dionysia to Hollywood: An Introduction to Comedy’s Long (and Bumpy) Road ; Emilio Audissino / 2. Humorous Techniques in Comedic Narratives ; Arthur Asa Berger / 3. Scoring Laughs: A Meditation on Music and Mirth ; Emile Wennekes // PART II: THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND ANALYSIS OF DEVICES / 4. Audiovisual Parallelism and Counterpoint as Strategies of Musical Humour ; Tom Schneller / 5. The Audiovisual Architecture of Musical Pauses, Punchlines, and Jablines: Paddington’s Punctuation Miguel Mera / 6. The Self-Aware Soundtrack: Film Music as a Metaleptic Device in Comedy Film ; Marcel Bouvrie / 7. ‘She’s a babe… SCHWING!’: Feminine Spectacle and Parody in Comedy Film Scoring ; Rebecca Fülöp / 8. Pop-Rock Authenticity, Intertextuality, and Humour in the Films of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell ; Nick Braae / 9. ‘The Man for His Time and Place.’ Identity, Musical Comedy, and the Compiled Soundtrack in The Big Lebowski ; Catherine Haworth / 10. Mozart in the Kitchen. Musical Reference and the Crisis of Action in Last Action Hero Paul Labelle / 11. ‘The Music Shouldn’t Acknowledge Any of the Jokes.’ Audiovisual Incongruence and the Functions of Music in Contemporary Dark Comedy Films ; David Ireland / 12. Seriously Funny Music: The Use of Serious Music for Comedic Effect ; Matt Lawson / 13. DJ, Interrupted: Delivering Punchlines with a Record Scratch ; Andrew Simmons / 14. On Being ‘In the Know’: When Classical Music Gets Played for Laughs ; James Wierzbicki // PART III: MUSIC AND COMEDY WITHIN NATIONAL CINEMAS / 15. Carry On Regardless: The Musical Humour of Eric Rogers ; Mervyn Cooke / 16. Musical-Comedic Stereotypes and Cinema. A Case Study of Irish-themed Features, 1946-1952 ; John O’Flynn / 17. The Paladin of Italian Comedy. Totò and Music ; Roberto Calabretto / 18. Mocking Sound: Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari (1930) as a Parody of Early German Sound Film ; Ingeborg Zechner / 19.‘Hubert, you are sooo… French!’: Musical Pastiche and Parody in Michel Hazanavicius’ Espionage Comedy Films OSS 117 (2006, 2009) ; Chloé Huvet , Marie-Hélène Chevrier / 20. From Imperio to Lola: Mapping Comedy in the Tradition of Spanish Folkloric Musicals (1930-1960) ; Laura Miranda / 21. We Can Sing and Laugh Like Children: Music as Comedy in the Film Musicals of Grigorij Aleksandrov and Isaak Dunaevskij ; Peter Kupfer / 22. Playing with Borders. Film Music and Social Criticism in Swedish Comedies by Hasse and Tage ; Ann-Kristin Wallengren / 23. Harassing Hogwash Scored with Happy Hardcore: The Ruthless Humour of the Dutch New Kids Films ; Emile Wennekes / 24. On and Beyond Mickey-Mousing: Revisiting Yuan Muzhi’s Scenes of City Life (1935) ; Jingyi Zhang (Harvard University, USA) / 25. Overview of Music in Nollywood Comedy Cinema ; Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus / 26. Comedy and Parody in the Songs of the Hindi Cinema ; Gregory D. Booth / 27. Parody, Commentary, Subversion: Music in Japanese Comedy Cinema ; Alexander Binns / 28. Music for Tricksters and Music as Trickster in the Classical Hollywood Score ; Nathan Platte // PART IV: COMPOSERS, STYLES, AND CORPUS STUDIES / 29. The Joke’s on You: Puns and Punchlines in the Music of the Marx Brothers ; Beth E. Levy / 30. ‘Valse Elegante’: The Comedic Film Music of Charlie Chaplin Jim Lochner / 31. Jacques Tati and the Musical Construction of the Comedic ; Anna Stoll Knecht / 32. Music for Low Comedy and High Romance: Malcolm Arnold’s Score for Hobson’s Choice (David Lean, 1954) ; Paul Mazey / 33. The New King of Comedy: Theodore Shapiro and the New Millennial Comedy Score ; Joakim Tillman / 34. ‘Cut it Out, Cricket’: Affective Management through Diegetic Music and Song in Howard Hawks’s Comedies and Comic Dramas ; Raymond Knapp / 35. Music, Satire, and Smutna Comedy in the Zbigniew Preisner-Krzysztof Kieslowski Collaborations ; Lindsay Carter/ 36. Louis de Funès as Gendarme: Comic Incongruity and Self-Reflexive Music in the Golden Age of French Comedies (1964–80) ; Michael Baumgartner / 37. Songs and Scores in the Films of Mel Brooks: The Collaboration with John Morris ; Ronald Sadoff / 38. Taking Mancini’s Comedy Scores Seriously ; James Deaville / 39. Ennio Morricone’s Music for La Cage aux folles (1978) ; Franco Sciannameo / 40. Irony, Comic, and Humour. The Comedic Sides of John Williams ; Emilio Audissino , Chloé Huvet / 41. Jocular Juxtapositions, Parody, and Ludicrous Lyrics. Music in Monty Python’s Comedy Films ; Emile Wennekes / 42. Music and Comedy in the Films of Woody Allen ; Alexander Binns // END MATTER. Afterword ; Mark Slobin // Index.