Kinds of American film comedy : six core genres and their literary roots /
""This unusual 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 Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W.C. Fields. Six comic film genres are indentified as outgr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2024]
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| Summary: | ""This unusual 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 Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W.C. Fields. Six comic film genres are indentified as outgrowths of a national tradition of cracker barrel philosophers and country store raconteurs-personality comedy, populism, parody, screwball comedy, romantic comedy and dark comedy. Tracing a rambling lineage from Ben Franklin to Mark Twain to Bob Hope to Steve Martin, the author presents a genealogy of glib antiheroes blowing raspberries at the world."-Provided by publisher"-- |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781476688992 1476688990 |