Film Parody by Dan Harries (Softcover First Edition)
$25.00
Published by the BFI, 2000
Softcover
153 pages
9x6 inches
Near Fine condition.
This first major book on one of the most prolific and profitable modes of contemporary film-making provides a lucid introduction to the films and a rigorous theoretical account of how parody operates on textual, pragmatic, and socio-cultural levels. Includes studies of Austin Powers, early Laurel and Hardy spoofs, Leslie Neilson films, and Spinal Tap, among other works.
