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Kinds of American film comedy : six core genres and their literary roots
- Title
- Kinds of American film comedy : six core genres and their literary roots / Wes D. Gehring ; foreword by Ashley M. Donnelly.
- Author
- Gehring, Wes D.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]
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- Description
- vii, 234 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
- Contents
- An American print humor survey prior to American film comedy -- Personality comedian -- Crackerbarrel populism -- Parody -- Screwball comedy (American farce) -- Romantic comedy -- Dark comedy -- Epilogue: Exit laughing.
- Call Number
- MFL 24-2988
- ISBN
- 9781476688992
- 1476688990
- 9781476650494 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2024000912
- OCLC
- 1417082165
- Author
- Gehring, Wes D., author.
- Title
- Kinds of American film comedy : six core genres and their literary roots / Wes D. Gehring ; foreword by Ashley M. Donnelly.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 24-2988