The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema

This handbook tackles the understudied relationship between music and comedy cinema by analyzing nature, perception, and function of music from fresh perspectives. Its approach is not only multidisciplinary, but also interdisciplinary in its close examination of how music and the other cinematic devices interact in the creation of comedy. The volume addresses gender representation, national identities, stylistic strategies, and employs inputs from cultural studies, musicology, psychology, cognitivism, semiotics, formal and stylistic film analysis, and psychoanalysis. It is organized along the lines of theoretical investigations, music and comedy within national cinemas, and exemplary case studies of films or authors.