Personality Comedians as Genre - Selected Players

List of contents

Illustrations
Foreword by Dennis E. Hensley
Preface
Introduction
Bunny and Charlie
The Marxes, Laurel & Hardy and W. C. Fields
Where There's Hope.There's Allen--Woody
Epilogue
Appendix: Selected Filmography
Selected Bibliography

About the author

WES D. GEHRING is Professor of Film at Ball State University and Associate Media Editor at USA Today magazine. He is the author of a dozen books, including Screwball Comedy: A Genre of Madcap Romance (Greenwood, 1986), Personality Comedians as Genre (Greenwood, 1997), American Dark Comedy (Greenwood, 1996), Populism and the Capra Legacy (Greenwood, 1995), and Handbook of American Film Genres (Greenwood, 1988) He has also written biographies of W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, and Laurel and Hardy.

Product details

• Authors: Wes Gehring, Gehring Wes D.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.1997
• EAN: 9780313261855
• ISBN: 978-0-313-26185-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General