The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema

1. From Dionysia to Hollywood: An Introduction to Comedy's Long (and Bumpy) Road.- 2. Humorous Techniques in Comedic Narratives.- 3. Scoring Laughs: A Meditation on Music and Mirth.- 4. Audiovisual Parallelism and Counterpoint as Strategies of Musical Humour.- 5. The Audiovisual Architecture of Musical Pauses, Punchlines, and Jablines: Paddington's Punctuation.- 6. The Self-Aware Soundtrack: Film Music as a Metaleptic Device in Comedy Film.- 7. 'She's a babe. SCHWING!': Feminine Spectacle and Parody in Comedy Film Scoring.- 8. Pop-Rock Authenticity, Intertextuality, and Humour in the Films of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell.- 9. 'The Man for His Time and Place.' Identity, Musical Comedy, and the Compiled Soundtrack in The Big Lebowski.- 10. Mozart in the Kitchen. Musical Reference and the Crisis of Action in Last Action Hero.- 11. 'The Music Shouldn't Acknowledge Any of the Jokes.' Audiovisual Incongruence and the Functions ofMusic in Contemporary Dark Comedy Films.- 12.Seriously Funny Music: The Use of Serious Music for Comedic Effect.- 13. DJ, Interrupted: Delivering Punchlines with a Record Scratch.- 14. On Being 'In the Know': When Classical Music Gets Played for Laughs.- 15. Carry On Regardless: The Musical Humour of Eric Rogers.- 16. Musical-Comedic Stereotypes and Cinema. A Case Study of Irish-themed Features, 1946-1952.- 17. The Paladin of Italian Comedy. Totò and Music.- 18. Mocking Sound: Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari (1930) as a Parody of Early German Sound Film.- 19. 'Hubert, you are sooo. French!': Musical Pastiche and Parody in Michel Hazanavicius' Espionage Comedy Films OSS 117 (2006, 2009).- 20. From Imperio to Lola: Mapping Comedy in the Tradition of Spanish Folkloric Musicals (1930-1960).- 21. We Can Sing and Laugh Like Children: Music as Comedy in the Film Musicals of Grigorij Aleksandrov and Isaak Dunaevskij.- 22. Playing with Borders. Film Music and Social Criticism in Swedish Comedies by Hasse and Tage.- 23. Harassing Hogwash Scored with Happy Hardcore: The Ruthless Humour of the Dutch New Kids Films.- 24. On and Beyond Mickey-Mousing: Revisiting Yuan Muzhi's Scenes of City Life (1935).- 25. Overview of Music in Nollywood Comedy Cinema.- 26. Comedy and Parody in the Songs of the Hindi Cinema.- 27. Parody, Commentary, Subversion: Music in Japanese Comedy Cinema.- 28. Music for Tricksters and Music as Trickster in the Classical Hollywood Score.- 29. The Joke's on You: Puns and Punchlines in the Music of the Marx Brothers.- 30. 'Valse Elegante': The Comedic Film Music of Charlie Chaplin.- 31. Jacques Tati and the Musical Construction of the Comedic.- 32. Music for Low Comedy and High Romance: Malcolm Arnold's Score for Hobson's Choice (David Lean, 1954).- 33. The New King of Comedy: Theodore Shapiro and the New MillennialComedy Score.- 34. 'Cut it Out, Cricket': Affective Management through Diegetic Music and Song in Howard Hawks's Comedies and Comic Dramas.- 35. Music, Satire, and Smutna Comedy in the Zbigniew Preisner-Krzysztof Kieslowski Collaborations.- 36. Louis de Funès as Gendarme: Comic Incongruity and Self-Reflexive Music in the Golden Age of French Comedies (1964-80).- 37. Songs and Scores in the Films of Mel Brooks: The Collaboration with John Morris.- 38. Taking Mancini's Comedy Scores Seriously.- 39. Ennio Morricone's Music for La Cage aux folles (1978).- 40. Irony, Comic, and Humour. The Comedic Sides of John Williams.- 41. Jocular Juxtapositions, Parody, and Ludicrous Lyrics. Music in Monty Python's Comedy Films.- 42. Music and Comedy in the Films of Woody Allen.