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Wes D. Gehring
Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview places the genre in context, and a number of basic par
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Wes D. Gehring
This groundbreaking 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 Robert Benchley, Will Rogers, Groucho Marx
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Wes D. Gehring
Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923) was a groundbreaking film which was neither a simple recycling of Peggy Hopkins Joyce's story, nor quickly forgotten. Through heavily-documented'period research,'this book lands several bombshells, including
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Wes D. Gehring
Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as'a kind of Rear Window for retirees.'As this quote suggests, an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's methodical use of comedy in his films is past due. One of Turner Classic Movies'on-screen schol
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Wes D. Gehring
Buster Keaton'can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair,'wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic'theater of the absurd,'speaks to
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Wes D. Gehring
This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about death--hardly Fred and Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a bre
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Wes D. Gehring
The 1950s were a transitional period for film comedians. The artistic suppression of the McCarthy era and the advent of television often resulted in a dumbing down of motion pictures. Cartoonist-turned-director Frank Tashlin contributed a funny but c
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Wes D. Gehring
The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the genre in a groundbreaking manner but yet for a pro-
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Wes D. Gehring
Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with
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Wes D. Gehring
Publikováno v:
humr. 6:285-298
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::5dbf038d0ef7f9d36c5817b56ced7ab0
https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.1993.6.3.285
https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.1993.6.3.285
