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Comedy Film: Marcus King
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In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time. In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the "Ealing comedies", from 1946 to 1956. They usually included a degree of social comment, and featured ensemble casts which often included Alec Guinness or Stanley Holloway. Among the most famous examples were Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955).
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In this chapter, King ... undertakes a brief history of film comedy, introducing the reader to the formats of comedian comedy and romantic comedy and accounting for some of the formal and narrative conventions that dominate each format. It becomes apparent here that modality operates quite differently in the two formats. In comedian comedy, slapstick gags have the capacity to disrupt the narrative or pursue ends that are counter-productive to the economic function of narrative, whereas in romantic comedy narrative plays a much more primary role. While King devotes a separate section to the formal aspects of comedian comedy, thereby suggesting that the comedy of comedian comedy can have a distinctive cinematic form, there is no such equivalent for romantic comedy, which might deploy slapstick but otherwise emerges from the narrative. Indeed, King's discussion of romantic comedy, not uninteresting in itself, is almost entirely focused on narrative.
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As executive producer, on-air host and contributor for the channel, Foxx will draw from his wide array of artistic experience and success from music, comedy, film and television. Marcus King, who has produced such Foxx projects as The Jamie Foxx Show, Jamie Foxx: Unpredictable, Genius: A Night for Ray Charles, and other television series and specials, will ... serve as executive producer. The 24/7 channel will feature urban comedy bits from a large number of comedians, and will create groundbreaking approaches to presenting comedy to radio listeners, as well as showcase music, skits, radio theater and more. The Foxxhole will launch this spring on SIRIUS channel 106.
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