Author(s): Brian Dunbar
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 50
Publisher: Auteur Publishing
Language: English
Date Published: 2008-03-19
Dimensions: 210.82 x 294.64 x 7.62mm
Publication City/Country: Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom
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Comedy Films: Classroom Resources offers a range of classroom friendly pupil resource sheets containing exercises, essay questions and tasks that offer a framework of study for teachers of Film and Media Studies. Starting by asking 'Can comedy be called a genre?', Brian Dunbar then goes on to address the key concepts of Media Studies offering practical teaching solutions to looking at comedy films from such historical periods and movements as: silent comedy film, classical Hollywood 'screwball comedy, ' British comedy films, foreign comedy, and contemporary independent American comedy In addition to covering the core concepts, the author also provides exercises for practical classroom work including designing a comedy film trailer, designing a comedy video sleeve, adapting a comedy film for radio and designing a Web page to promote a comedy film.