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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Main Author: Skweres, Artur,
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2017.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVIII, 97 pages 20 illustrations).
Series: Second language learning and teaching.
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