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The Film Comedy Reader (Paperback)
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The Film Comedy Reader (Paperback)
Series: Limelight
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Following upon the popularity of Film Noir Reader and The Western
Reader, this lavishly illustrated collection of essays recalls the
movies that over the past century have made us smile, chuckle and
laugh -- often uncontrollably. Some of the pieces focus on those
stars whose energy, imagination, timing and attitude were
irresistibly funny, others on the special vision and techniques of
such masters of comedy directing as Mark Sennett, Ernst Lubitsch,
Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder, Woody Allen, Hal Ashby, Mike Nichols,
Hal Hartley and David O Russell. In the final section of the book,
comedies of the 90s like There's Something about Mary, Spanking the
Monkey and Rushmore are considered as reflections of our changing
social values. But here, as throughout this collection, recognition
of underlying serious themes never obscures the ultimate quality of
the great movie comedies: the power to make us laugh.
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