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This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about deathhardly Fred and Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a breaking of formula that director Robert Altman called anti-genre. Altmans MASH (1970) ridiculed the military establishment in generalthe Vietnam War in particularunder the guise of a standard military service comedy. The picaresque Western Little Big Man (1970) turned the bluecoats vs. Indians formula upside-downthe audience roots for the Indians instead of the cavalry. The book covers 12 essential films, including Harold and Maude (1971), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) and Being There (1979), with notes on A Clockwork Orange (1971). These films reveal a compounding complexity that reinforces the absurdity at the heart of dark comedy. Genre-Killer - TV Tropes The Genre-Killer trope as used in popular culture One order of magnitude greater than Franchise Killer this is when a work somehow manages to take an Slice of Life - TV Tropes The Slice of Life trope as used in popular culture Life observed and examined A cast of characters go about their daily lives making observations and
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