Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films
This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo Ludens(1938) and Roger Caillois in Les jeux et les hommes (1958). To address the lack of attention paid...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Issues in Literature and Culture,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47967-5 |