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Homo Viator in Contemporary European Comedy Movies

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  • Jul 2025
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Authors:
  1. Artur Skweres

    1. Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, English Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland

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  2. Adam Domalewski

    1. Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University , Poznań, Poland

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  • Provides perspectives on some of the most famous film comedies in recent history of European cinema
  • Explores the largely unexamined yet widely popular theme of travel and vacation
  • Analyzes British, French, Italian, Spanish, and German films, it will interest researchers of European comedy

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

Part of the book sub series: Issues in Literature and Culture (ILC)

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Keywords

  • European Cinema
  • Comedy
  • Popular Culture
  • Genre Cinema
  • Comic Character

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, English Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland

    Artur Skweres

  • Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University , Poznań, Poland

    Adam Domalewski

About the authors

Artur Skweres (D.Litt.) is Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. He has participated in numerous international conferences and has received Prize of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in 2011 and 2020. His interests include English and American literature, media ecology, film adaptations, and drawing. His recent publications include the monographs The relationship between oneiric and pragmatic play in Mark Twain’s works (Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 2019) and McLuhan’s Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan’s Thought (2019) published by Springer as a part of Second Language Learning and Teaching. Issues in Literature and Culture series edited by Miroslaw Pawlak. 

Adam Domalewski is a graduate of Film Studies (2014) and Theater Studies (2012), Doctor of Arts (2018), and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. He is also a critic of contemporary theater. His research interests include film and religion studies, as well as contemporary European cinema, with a particular focus on the depiction of migration and diasporic issues. He has published papers in numerous academic journals, including “Ekphrasis”, “Kwartalnik Filmowy”, “Images”, and “Panoptikum”. In the realm of comedy and film, he is the author of the paper "Towards a Multicultural Community: The Accommodation of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the 'Migrant Comedy' Genre."

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Homo Viator in Contemporary European Comedy Movies

  • Authors: Artur Skweres, Adam Domalewski

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-94873-2Due: 29 July 2025

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-94876-3Due: 29 July 2026

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-94874-9Due: 29 July 2025

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations

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