Comedy is a Man in Trouble : Slapstick in American Movies.
Title:
Comedy is a Man in Trouble : Slapstick in American Movies.
Author:
Dale, Alan.
ISBN:
9780816691975
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Contents:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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