Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s: Twelve American Films

by Wes D. Gehring

This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about death--hardly Fred and Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a breaking of formula that director Robert Altman called ""anti-genre."" Altman's MASH (1970) ridiculed the military establishment in general--the Vietnam War in particular--under the guise of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786495421
• ISBN13: 9780786495429
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher