| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 512 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"An A Cappella book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-483) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Charlie Chaplin: the most famous man on earth -- Buster Keaton: the camera man -- Harold Lloyd: the striver -- Laurel & Hardy: straight man and little boy -- The Marx Brothers: brothers of anarchy -- W.C. Fields: the juggler -- Mae West: :"it's all been done before, but not the way I do it" -- Ernst Lubitsch: the touch -- Preston Sturges: the cockeyed caravan -- Cary Grant: the picture of Archie Leach -- Katherine Hepburn: Spencer's rib -- Billy Wilder: "nobody's perfect!" -- Marilyn Monroe: funny blonde -- Doris Day: battle of the sexless -- Jerry Lewis: they're crazy about him in France -- Peter Sellers: the man behind the masks -- Dustin Hoffman: stardom, revised -- Robert Altman: overlapping dialogue -- Mel Brooks: the 2000-year-old parodist -- Woody Allen: Hope and Bergman -- Richard Pryor: rebel without a pause -- Albert Brooks: the return of Sully Sullivan -- Steve Martin: the jerk and the genius -- Eddie Murphy: incredible shrinking comic -- Bill Murray: just the usual comic inspiration- frustration, loss, and death -- The Coen Brothers: oddball America -- Christopher Guest: the Baron of the Mockumentary -- Ben Stiller: good Jewish boys -- Will Ferrell: "a pretty nice little Saturday" -- Judd Apatow: Peter Pans and the frat brothers -- |
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Short Entries. -- Abbott & Costello -- Wes Anderson -- Jennifer Aniston -- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle -- Jean Arthur -- Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers -- Lauren Bacall -- Anne Bancroft -- Drew Barrymore -- Noah Baumbach -- Ralph Bellamy -- John Belushi -- Humphrey Bogart -- Bugs Bunny -- Frank Capra -- Jim Carrey -- Chevy Chase -- Cheech & Chong ( Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong) -- Maurice Chevalier -- Claudette Colbert -- Gary Cooper -- Bill Cosby -- Billy Crystal -- George Cukor -- Cameron Diaz -- Marlene Dietrich -- Stanley Donen -- Margaret Dumont -- Blake Edwards -- Nora Ephron -- Bobb & Peter Farrelly -- Tina Fey -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Elliott Gould -- Jean Harlow -- Howard Hawks -- Ben Hecht -- Amy Heckerling -- Audrey Hepburn -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Judy Holliday -- Bob Hope -- Edward Everett Horton -- John Hughes -- Jim Jarmusch -- Chuck Jones -- Garson Kanin & Ruth Gordon -- Charlie Kaufman -- Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow -- Stanley Kubrick -- Harry Langdon -- Spike Lee -- Mitchell Leisen -- Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau -- Richard Linklater -- Carole Lombard -- Myrna Loy -- |
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Shirley MacLaine -- Jayne Mansfield -- Dean Martin -- Elaine May -- Leo McCarey -- Joel McCrea -- Lorne Michaels -- Mike Myers -- Mike Nichols -- Jack Nicholson -- Alexander Payne -- Tyler Perry -- Pixar -- Harold Ramis -- Tony Randall -- Samson Raphaelson -- Carl Reiner -- Rob Reiner -- Hal Roach -- Julia Roberts -- Will Rogers -- Paul Rudd -- David O. Russell -- Rosalind Russell -- Winona Ryder -- Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, George S. Kaufman, and S. J. Perelman -- Adam Sandler -- Mack Sennett -- Neil Simon -- Kevin Smith -- Steven Soderbergh -- Barbara Stanwyck -- James Stewart -- Whit Stillman -- Meryl Streep -- Barbra Streisand -- Quentin Tarantino -- Frank Tashlin -- The Three Stooges -- Vince Vaughn -- John Waters -- Keenen Ivory Wayans -- John Wayne -- Gene Wilder -- Robin Williams -- Renée Zellweger -- Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker. |
| Summary |
Looks at American film comedy from Charlie Chaplin to the work of Judd Apatow, covering such legends as W.C. Fields, Billy Wilder, and the Cohen brothers. |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Comedy films. |
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United States. |
| Added Title |
History of American film comedy |
| ISBN |
9781556529511 paperback |
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1556529511 paperback |
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