Table of Contents Introduction: The Comedy of Meredith A. Harmes and Marcus K. Harmes War in Cinema Classics Isn't It Romantic? Exploring the Tensions Between Ruins and Romantic Comedy in the Reception of A Foreign Affair Manon Küffer Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket: A Vicious Comedy in the Theater of Satire William Gombash Wars of the Middle Ages: Monty Python's Humor in The Holy Grail Sascia Pellegrini Laughing at the Nazis Heil Honey I'm Home Again: The Evolution of the Hitler Satire Joseph Ozias Warning, Comedy, and the Threat of Violence in Look Who's Back David Young The Wise Men of Jerusalem: Comedies of Failure in Eyal Sivan's The Specialist Rebecca Ora War Situated in Situation Comedies Anti-War Tropes Go Forth: Class Relations in Blackadder Goes Forth Michael B. Charles Camaraderie Through American Capitalist Ideals: American Wartime Sitcoms, Humor, and Cultural Tradition William J. Lorenzo Narratives of Resistance and Compliance in the Comedies of David Croft Marcus K. Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes Laughter in the War on Terror Satire, Warfare Cinematography, and Consumer Culture in Three Kings Johan Nilsson Audience Resistance to Hollywood's Post-Iraq Movies: War Dogs (2016), War Machine (2017), and Vice (2018) Alex Symons About the Contributors Index.
Armed Farces : Essays on War-Themed Film and Television Comedy