Charlot v. Hulot
David Trotter: Tativille, 2 July 2020
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism
by Malcolm Turvey.
Columbia, 304 pp., £25, December 2019,978 0 231 19303 0 Show More
by Malcolm Turvey.
Columbia, 304 pp., £25, December 2019,
The Definitive Jacques Tati
edited by Alison Castle.
Taschen, 1136 pp., £185, June,978 3 8365 7711 3 Show More
edited by Alison Castle.
Taschen, 1136 pp., £185, June,
“... to be the comedy of an environment and its many and variously motivated users.In his new book, Malcolm Turvey takes this particular bull by the horns, proposing that Tati’s films should be regarded as a form of ‘comedic modernism’. We are accustomed to thinking of the international movements of the postwar period, from Neorealism through to the ... ”
