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In this book, Norman Kagan explores of the nature of comedy and helps readers discover why they are laughing, new reasons to laugh, and new films to that will offer a source of laughter.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Comedy and College Comedies: Why study college comedies? Comedy analysis, organization, availability.
Chapter 2: College Athlete Comedies: The Freshman, College, and others
Chapter 3: Romantic/Screwball College Comedies: The Wild Party, Ball of Fire, Where the Boys Are, and more
Chapter 4: The Marx Brothers at College: Horse Feathers and its offspring
Chapter 5: College Musicals: College Humor, College Holiday, Good News, and many others
Chapter 6: Jerry Lewis and Eddie Murphy at College: The Nutty Professor, The Klumps, and sequels
Chapter 7: Intergenerational College Comedies: That's My Boy, Take Her, She's Mine, Back to School, Old School, and others
Chapter 8t: College Social Comedies: The Graduate, Risky Business, Breaking Away, Mona Lisa Smile, and more
Chapter 9: College Political Comedies: Getting Straight, The Way We Were, PCU, The Last Supper, and others
Chapter 10: College Racial or Ethnic Comedies: School Daze, Soul Man, Foreign Student, American Desi, and others
Chapter 11: College Farces: A Chump at Oxford, Charley's Aunt, Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, Police Academy, and many more
Chapter 12: Comic Theory and College Comedies: Sigmund Freud and The Decline of the American Empire, Susan Langer and Slacker, Wylie Sypher and With Honors, Robert Heilman and Threesome, George Meredith and Wonder Boys, Henri Bergson and The Squid and the Whale, and Northrop Frye and Storytelling
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About the author
Norman Kagan has taught communications, cinema, mass media, and essay writing at the City University of New York and elsewhere. As Writer/Producer of the USIA's Science Report, his programs were policy instruments broadcast on 600 television stations in 110 countries. He has written and produced news and documentary films; and, published eight books on film.
Summary
In this book, Norman Kagan explores of the nature of comedy and helps readers discover why they are laughing, new reasons to laugh, and new films to that will offer a source of laughter.
