02541nam 2200565Ia 450 991082086080332120230222160440.00-8166-9197-5(CKB)1000000000346880(EBL)310508(OCoLC)191948698(SSID)ssj0000278049(PQKBManifestationID)11195553(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278049(PQKBWorkID)10241057(PQKB)11167014(MiAaPQ)EBC310508(MdBmJHUP)muse38973(Au-PeEL)EBL310508(CaPaEBR)ebr10151208(CaONFJC)MIL522696(EXLCZ)99100000000034688020000411d2000 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComedy is a man in trouble[electronic resource] slapstick in American movies /Alan DaleMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20001 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3657-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-245) and index.Machine generated contents note: 1. Comedy Is a Man in Trouble 1 -- 2. Chaplin as Proteus, Low-Down and High Up 31 -- 3. Junior: Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton 59 -- 4. Girl Heroes 92 -- 5. The Marx Brothers: The Buoyant Refuse of Our Teeming Shore 132 -- 6. Preston Sturges: Girl in a Jam, Boy in a Jam 161 -- 7. Jerry Lewis: The Once and Future King of Comedy 190 -- Coda 213 -- Notes 221 -- Works Cited 237 -- Index 247.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.Comedy filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismMotion picturesUnited StatesHistory and criticismComedy filmsHistory and criticism.Motion picturesHistory and criticism.791.43/617791.43617Dale Alan S.1960-1613399MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820860803321Comedy is a man in trouble3942681UNINA