Contents

Introduction

Theory

Laughter is Always Appropriate

Trends in Screen Comedy

Pop Go the Weasels: Quentin Tarantino's Use of Popular Culture

A Network To Die For: 20 Years of Television Satire

The Adaptable Altman

Not Just Idle Chitchat: Dialogue in the Screenplays of Stanley Kubrick

Son of a Gun: The Uncomfortable Mix of Violence and Humour

From Androids to Blade Runners: Adapting Philip K. Dick

Wholesale Creativity: Verhoeven's Adaptation of Dick

The Unflinching Comic Gaze of Billy Wilder

Film, Dreams and Stolen Pocketwatches

The Man Who Wasn't There: Narrative Ambiguity in Recent Hollywood Films

Practice

Definitely a David Cronenberg Film

Quick-Fix Voodoo Charm

Oblivious To Oblivion

Swallowing Childhood's Bitter Pills

You've Never Been Kissed Like This Before

Dem Bones, Dem Bones

Lilies: Beyond Euro-pudding

Digital Editing

How To Run a Perfect Audition

Nailing Down the Ideal Documentary

Legal