Introduction: the great corrective / Murray Pomerance
Laughing silently / Matthew Solomon
Wellesian laughter / James Morrison
Jerry made his day / Jean-Michel Frodon
Noir at play / Thomas Leitch
"So bad it's good": critical humor in science fiction cinema / Christine Cornea
Wrenching departures: mortality and absurdity in avant-garde film / David Sterritt
Time's timing and the threat of laughter in Nicolas Roeg's Don't look now / George Toles
The gangster giggles / Murray Pomerance
If only they had meant to make a comedy: laughing at Black swan / Adrienne L. McLean
Foolish bum, funny shit: scatological humor in Hal Hartley's not-so-comedic Henry Fool / David Martin-Jones
Homeric laughter in The treasure of the Sierra Madre / R. Barton Palmer
"Why so serious?": battling the comic in The dark knight / Dominic Lennard
The laughter of robots / Linda Ruth Williams.
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The last laugh : strange humors of cinema. ISBN 9780814335130. Published by Wayne State University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
