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35 produkter
American Dark Comedy
Beyond Satire
Inbunden, 1996
1067 kr
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From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and literary context, Gehring explores the genre's obession with death and the characters' failure to be …
Parody as Film Genre
Never Give a Saga an Even Break
E-bok, 1999
1241 kr
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Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview places the genre in context, and a number of basic parody components, which better define the genre and …
Marx Brothers
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 1987
1241 kr
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This bio-bibliography was designed to present a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical portrait of the Marx Brothers. It examines their significance in film comedy in particular, and as popular culture figures in general. The book is divided into five sections, beginning with a …
Charlie Chaplin
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1983
830 kr
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Marx Brothers
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1987
1129 kr
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This bio-bibliography was designed to present a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical portrait of the Marx Brothers. It examines their significance in film comedy in particular, and as popular culture figures in general. The book is divided into five sections, beginning with a …
Laurel and Hardy
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1990
979 kr
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This book presents a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical estimate of Laurel & Hardy's significance in film comedy, the arts in general, and as popular culture icons. Of the two, Laurel decidedly evolves as the central player in this duo biography. The reasons for this are several, …
Mr. B or Comforting Thoughts About the Bison
A Critical Biography of Robert Benchley
Inbunden, 1992
1129 kr
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With the cooperation of Benchley family members, and using diaries and correspondence and much archival material, Gehring has written a fresh and lively biography of humorist Robert Benchley. Known for his development of the comic anti-hero in essays, columns, film scripts, as a screen actor, and …
Populism and the Capra Legacy
Inbunden, 1995
855 kr
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Traditionally identified with screwball comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a conduit for populist concerns and issues. In this book, Gehring examines the influence of both Will Rogers and Frank Capra on modern populist movies, providing important background on Capra's links to the …
Personality Comedians as Genre
Selected Players
Inbunden, 1997
1067 kr
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The success of clown comedy is dependent on the comic or comics who take center stage. These comics are usually identified with a specific comedic shtick, physical or visual humor, and their underdog status. This study by film scholar Wes Gehring presents a brief, historical overview of major …
Parody as Film Genre
Never Give a Saga an Even Break
Inbunden, 1999
1132 kr
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Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview places the genre in context, and a number of basic parody components, which better define the genre and …
Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium
Baseball Films in the Capra Tradition
Häftad, 2004
396 kr
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Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the "feel good" movie genre now known as populism, which celebrates people, families, second chances, and other traditional American icons such as small town or pastoral life and baseball. Capra developed his own brand of populism by …
Joe E. Brown
Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon
Häftad, 2006
517 kr
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As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and spunk helped his family get through hard times …
Film Clowns of the Depression
Twelve Defining Comic Performances
Häftad, 2007
517 kr
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The 1930s are routinely considered sound film's greatest comedy era. Though this golden age encompassed various genres of laughter, clown comedy is the most basic type. This work examines the Depression decade's most popular type of comedy--the clown, or personality comedian. Focusing upon the …
Forties Film Funnymen
The Decade's Great Comedians at Work in the Shadow of War
Häftad, 2010
396 kr
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The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining comic performances. Ranging from The Great Dictator (1940) to A Southern Yankee (1948), each film focuses on the most central theme of "clown comedy": Resilience, the encouragement or hope …
Will Cuppy, American Satirist
A Biography
Häftad, 2013
517 kr
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Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with such fast company: Will Cuppy (1884-1949). This …
Chaplin's War Trilogy
An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947
Häftad, 2014
502 kr
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The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the genre in a groundbreaking manner but yet for a pro-war cause. In Dictator dark comedy is applied in …
Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s
Twelve American Films
Häftad, 2016
517 kr
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This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about death--hardly Fred and Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a breaking of formula that director Robert Altman …
Movie Comedians of the 1950s
Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy
Häftad, 2016
506 kr
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The 1950s were a transitional period for film comedians. The artistic suppression of the McCarthy era and the advent of television often resulted in a dumbing down of motion pictures. Cartoonist-turned-director Frank Tashlin contributed a funny but cartoonish effect through his work with comedians …
Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy
Charting the Difference
Inbunden, 2002
979 kr
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Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as popular today as ever! This book takes a closer look at the precise meanings of the terms screwball …
Leo McCarey
From Marx to McCarthy
Inbunden, 2004
1129 kr
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Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck Soup, McCarey directed. Later, as a writer and/or director, McCarey was responsible for a number of …
Irene Dunne
First Lady of Hollywood
Häftad, 2006
755 kr
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This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1985, Dunne's acting highlights include five Best Actress Oscar nominations, occurring in almost as many different genres: the …
Irene Dunne
First Lady of Hollywood
E-bok, 2006
827 kr
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This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood''s Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1985, Dunne''s acting highlights include five Best Actress Oscar nominations, occurring in almost as many different genres: the …
Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy
Charting the Difference
E-bok, 2002
1052 kr
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Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as popular today as ever! This book takes a closer look at the precise meanings of the terms screwball …
Buster Keaton in His Own Time
What the Responses of 1920s Critics Reveal
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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Buster Keaton "can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair," wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic "theater of the absurd," speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. If …
Charlie Chaplin and A Woman of Paris
The Genesis of a Misunderstood Masterpiece
Häftad, 2021
638 kr
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Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923) was a groundbreaking film which was neither a simple recycling of Peggy Hopkins Joyce's story, nor quickly forgotten. Through heavily-documented "period research," this book lands several bombshells, including Paris is deeply rooted in Chaplin's previous …
Hitchcock and Humor
Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films
Häftad, 2019
517 kr
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Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "a kind of Rear Window for retirees." As this quote suggests, an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's methodical use of comedy in his films is past due.One of Turner Classic Movies' on-screen scholars for their summer 2017 online Hitchcock …
Kinds of American Film Comedy
Six Core Genres and Their Literary Roots
Häftad, 2024
922 kr
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This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to and overlapping the advent of film--including some who worked both on the page and on the screen, like Robert Benchley, Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields. Six comic film genres are …
