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5) Table 19
Formats
Description
Ex-maid of honor Eloise, having been relieved of her duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to hold her head up high and attend her oldest friend's wedding anyway. She finds herself seated at the 'random' table in the back of the ballroom with a disparate group of strangers.
Series
Pub. Date
1961
Physical Desc
1 online resource (124 min.).
Description
Director Lee Hyeong-pyo tells us in the opening narration that his film will reflect 'a time when the old age and the new stand shoulder to shoulder.' Kim Hak-gyu, a doctor of Oriental medicine, spends his days hanging out with two friends -- a fortuneteller and a realtor. The three conduct their business from Kim's home in a small alley of traditional Korean homes. Ordinary life happens around this trio, as does trouble. Kim's family problems take...
Author
Series
Film- und Medienwissenschaft volume 14
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (110 pages).
Pub. Date
[2014], c2010
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (84 min.) : sound, color.
Description
Before they became the most celebrated comedy duo of all time, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were stars in their own right. This program presents five of the funniest silent solo efforts of these great comic actors produced and released in the 1920s, the golden age of classic comedy. See Stan Laurel as a gold rush miner pit against a corrupt sheriff in The Soilers; a bungling professor on a journey bogged down by a piano and a bathtub and chased by...
13) Sund@y Seoul
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (51 min.).
Description
Minimalist in style, Sunday Seoul is inspired by the bizarre stories that came to light during the circulation of a tabloid magazine -- Sunday Seoul -- that was published in Korea until it ceased to be run in the 1980s. In typical tabloid fashion, the film voyeuristically peeks into the darkest corners of people's lives. For example, a middle-aged college professor whose wife has recently died makes a desperate attempt to find an ex-student with whom...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations
Description
Keeping Quiet is a love-letter to the modern sight-gag on film and television, tracing the history of physical clowning since the advent of sound. Taking up the story of visual humour where Paul Merton's Silent Comedy leaves off, Julian Dutton charts the lives and work of all the great comedians who chose to remain silent, from Charlie Chaplin - who was determined to resist the 'talkies' - right through to the slapstick of modern-day performers such...




