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Well, there\'s a few different things going on here, as far as I see it there are three types of long title: titles which are quite long, and played straight (eg, \'\'The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain\'\'), comedically long titles which are generally comprised of a short main title and long subtitle (eg, \'\'Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb\'\'), and \
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Well, there\\\'s a few different things going on here, as far as I see it there are three types of long title: titles which are quite long, and played straight (eg, \\\'\\\'The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain\\\'\\\'), comedically long titles which are generally comprised of a short main title and long subtitle (eg, \\\'\\\'Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb\\\'\\\'), and \\\"self-assembly titles\\\", which are generally given to parodies of a particular genre by piecing together parts of many different titles within the genre (eg, \\\'\\\'Peter Kay\\\'s Britain\\\'s got the pop factor, and possibly a new celebrity Jesus Christ soapstar superstar strictly on ice\\\'\\\'). So immediately splitting the examples up into different categories would help remove a lot of the clutter, and possibly dumping the straight uses altogether because the usage of the long title in those cases is mostly unintentional and therefore does not convey meaning- ie not a trope, merely a coincidence.
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Well, there\'s a few different things going on here, as far as I see it there are three types of long title: titles which are quite long, and played straight (eg, \'\'The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain\'\'), comedically long titles which are generally comprised of a short main title and long subtitle (eg, \'\'Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb\'\'), and \
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Well, there\\\'s a few different things going on here, as far as I see it there are three types of long title: titles which are quite long, and played straight (eg, \\\'\\\'The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain\\\'\\\'), comedically long titles which are generally comprised of a short main title and long subtitle (eg, \\\'\\\'Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb\\\'\\\'), and \\\"self-assembly titles\\\", which are generally given to parodies of a particular genre by piecing together parts of many different titles within the genre (eg, \\\'\\\'Britain\\\'s got the pop factor, and possibly a new celebrity Jesus Christ soapstar superstar strictly on ice\\\'\\\'). So immediately splitting the examples up into different categories would help remove a lot of the clutter, and possibly dumping the straight uses altogether because the usage of the long title in those cases is mostly unintentional and therefore does not convey meaning- ie not a trope, merely a coincidence.
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Well, there\'s a few different things going on here, two types of long title: titles which are quite long, and played straight (eg, \'\'The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain\'\'), comedically long titles which are generally comprised of a short main title and long subtitle (eg, \'\'Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb\'\'), and \
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Well, there\\\'s a few different things going on here, as far as I see it there are three types of long title: titles which are quite long, and played straight (eg, \\\'\\\'The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain\\\'\\\'), comedically long titles which are generally comprised of a short main title and long subtitle (eg, \\\'\\\'Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb\\\'\\\'), and \\\"self-assembly titles\\\", which are generally given to parodies of a particular genre by piecing together parts of many different titles within the genre (eg, \\\'\\\'Britain\\\'s got the pop factor, and possibly a new Jesus Christ soapstar superstar strictly on ice\\\'\\\'). So immediately splitting the examples up into different categories would help remove a lot of the clutter, and possibly dumping the straight uses altogether because the usage of the long title in those cases is mostly unintentional and therefore does not convey meaning- ie not a trope, merely a coincidence.
