TY - BOOK ID - 78644465 TI - Beyond a joke : parody in English film and television comedy PY - 2017 SN - 1350985503 1786720906 1786730901 9781786720900 1784536636 9781784536633 9781786730909 PB - London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, DB - UniCat KW - Television comedies KW - Comedies, Television KW - Comedy programs KW - Comedy programs, Television KW - Comedy television programs KW - Television comedy programs KW - Television programs KW - Parody films KW - Television comedies. KW - Parody films. KW - History and criticism KW - History and criticism. KW - 1900-1999 KW - Great Britain. KW - Film genre parodies KW - Film parodies KW - Genre parodies (Motion pictures) KW - Genre parody films KW - Motion picture parodies KW - Movie parodies KW - Send-up films KW - Spoof films KW - Spoofs (Motion pictures) KW - Takeoff films KW - Comedy films KW - Parodies KW - Anglia KW - Angliyah KW - Briṭanyah KW - England and Wales KW - Förenade kungariket KW - Grã-Bretanha KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Grossbritannien KW - Igirisu KW - Iso-Britannia KW - Marea Britanie KW - Nagy-Britannia KW - Prydain Fawr KW - Royaume-Uni KW - Saharātchaʻānāčhak KW - Storbritannien KW - United Kingdom KW - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland KW - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland KW - Velikobritanii͡ KW - Wielka Brytania KW - Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta KW - Northern Ireland KW - Scotland KW - Wales UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78644465 AB - At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James Bond meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly after, the 'Queen' hurled herself out of a helicopter, her Union Jack parachute guiding her down to the Olympic Stadium. What it is about moments such as these that define both a particular idea of Britishness and a particular type of British film comedy? How has British cinema exploited parody as a means of negotiating its sense of identity? How does this function within a globalized marketplace and in the face of dominant Hollywood cinema?Beyond a Joke explores the myriad ways British film culture has used forms of parody, from the 1960s to the present day. It provides a contextual and textual analysis of a range of works that, while popular, have only rarely been the subject of serious academic attention - from Morecambe and Wise to Shaun of the Dead to the London 2012 Olympics' opening ceremony. Combining the methodologies both of film history and film theory, Beyond a Joke locates parody within specific industrial and cultural moments, while also looking in detail at the aesthetics of parody as a mode. Ultimately, such works are shown to be a form of culturally specific film or televisual product for exporting to the global market, in which 'Britishness', shaped in self-mocking and ironic terms, becomes the selling point. Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout with a diverse range of examples, Beyond a Joke is the first book to explore parody within a specifically British context and makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on both British and global film culture. ER -