Film Clowns of the Depression - Twelve Defining Comic Performances

Klappentext While some of the comedians in this text have generated a great deal of previous analysis! funnymen like Joe E. Brown and Eddie Cantor are all but forgotten. Even the work of this book's more familiar figures has been neglected in recent years. This book attempts to address these oversights and to re-expose the brilliance and ingenuity with which the screen clowns contributed a comic resiliency that was desperately needed during the Depression and can still be greatly appreciated today. The films discussed are City Lights (1931! Chaplin)! The Kid From Spain (1932! Cantor)! She Done Him Wrong (1933! Mae West)! Duck Soup (1933! Marx Brothers)! Sons of the Desert (1933! Laurel and Hardy)! Judge Priest (1934! Will Rogers)! It's a Gift (1934! W.C. Fields)! Alibi Ike (1935! Brown)! A Night at the Opera (1935! Marx Brothers)! Modern Times (1936! Chaplin)! Way Out West (1937! Laurel and Hardy)! and The Cat and the Canary (1939! Bob Hope). Zusammenfassung The 1930s are routinely considered sound film's greatest comedy era. Though this golden age encompassed various genres of laughter! clown comedy is the most basic type. This work examines the Depression decade's most popular type of comedy - the clown! or personality comedian. It focuses upon the Depression era! and analyses 12 memorable pictures.

Product details

• Authors: Wes D. Gehring, Wes D./ Boomhower Gehring
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2007
• EAN: 9780786428922
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-2892-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV