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Comedy is a man in trouble [[electronic resource] ] : slapstick in American movies / / Alan Dale



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Autore: Dale Alan S. <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Comedy is a man in trouble [[electronic resource] ] : slapstick in American movies / / Alan Dale Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
Disciplina: 791.43/617
791.43617
Soggetto topico: Comedy films - United States - History and criticism
Motion pictures - United States - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-245) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Comedy is a man in trouble  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9197-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451714803321
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