comedy film

History and evolution

Placing Chaplin and Buster Keaton alongside later titles such as «Super empollonas» and «Lady Bird» opens up comedy’s temporal range without assuming that all the works share one style.

Conventions and techniques

• «Charada», «Shaun of the Dead» and «Dr. Strangelove» illustrate the variety of works grouped as comedies, not one comic device required of every film.

Boundaries and overlaps

Black, romantic, screwball and crime comedy, spoof and buddy film are related labels. They should not be treated as equivalent or automatically turned into precise boundaries between films.