Laurel and Hardy''s Comic Catastrophes - Laughter and Darkness in the Features and Short Films

A discussion of Laurel and Hardy films in a way that is both critical and appreciative, Bliss explores how complex the comedic duo's films are in terms of acting, structure, and storyline, also pointing out how the films qualify as comedies in the classic sense even though they subvert the genre's traditional tendency for stories to end well.

About the author

Michael Bliss, Senior Instructor in English at Virginia Tech, has worked as a newspaper film critic, a film festival associate director, copywriter for motion picture theaters in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Kansas City, technical editor on cinema, and American correspondent for the British magazine Making Better Movies. He is the author of eleven books including Invasions USA: The Essential Science Fiction Films of the 1950s (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

Summary

A discussion of Laurel and Hardy films in a way that is both critical and appreciative, Bliss explores how complex the comedic duo's films are in terms of acting, structure, and storyline, also pointing out how the films qualify as comedies in the classic sense even though they subvert the genre's traditional tendency for stories to end well.

Product details

• Authors: Bliss, Michael Bliss, Bliss Michael
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781538101537
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0153-7
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Film and History; Film and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism