Comedy is a man in trouble : slapstick in American movies /

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Comedy Is a Man in Trouble presents a lively, accessible, and lavishly illustrated look at a form of comedy that has been expanded and refashioned in film by everyone from W.C. Fields and Marion Davies to Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Here is not only an amusing look at film comedy history, but...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dale, Alan S., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Comedy films > United States > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > United States > History and criticism.
Films comiques > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Comedy films
Motion pictures
Filmkomödie
Geschichte
Slapstick
Familienserie
Film
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; 1. Comedy Is a Man in Trouble; 2. Chaplin as Proteus, Low-Down and High Up; 3. Junior: Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton; 4. Girl Heroes; 5. The Marx Brothers: The Buoyant Refuse of Our Teeming Shore; 6. Preston Sturges: Girl in a Jam, Boy in a Jam; 7. Jerry Lewis: The Once and Future King of Comedy; Coda; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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