Historical Comedy on Screen

Hannu Salmi is professor of cultural history at the University of Turku in Finland and coeditor of the series Studies on Popular Culture, also published by Intellect.

• Introduction: Mad History of the World  – Hannu Salmi, University of Turku PART I: COMEDIANS AND COMIC REPRESENTATIONS Buster Keaton’s Comedies of Southern History: Our Hospitality and The General – Susan E. Linville, University of Denver From Ideal Husbands to Berserk Gargoyles: Comic Representations of the British Past in the 1950s and 1960s – Harri Kilpi, University of Helsinki Comedians and Romance: History and Humour in Kalabalik – David Ludvigsson, University of Uppsala Woody Allen and History – Maurice Yawocar, University of Calgary PART II: NO LAUGHING MATTER No Laughing Matter? Comedy and The Spanish Civil War – David Archibald, University of Glasgow A Killer Joke? World War Two in Post-War British Television and Film Comedy – Rami Mähkä, University of Turku “Holocaust-Nostalgia”, Humor and Irony: The Case of Pizza in Auschwitz – Hagai Dagan, Sapir College Comedy and Counter-history – Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburg