| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 an insight into the human condition and what causes us to laugh |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Comedy films
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Motion pictures
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Filmkomödie
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Geschichte
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Slapstick
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Familienserie
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Film
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816691975 |
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0816691975 |
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