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...
| Main Author: | Skweres, Artur (Author) |
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| Corporate Author: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Series: | Second Language Learning and Teaching,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
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