Kinds of American Film Comedy - Six Core Genres and Their Literary Roots

This unusual film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to and overlapping the advent of film--including some who worked both on the page and on the screen, like Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W.C. Fields. Six comic film genres are indentified as outgrowths of a national tradition of cracker barrel philosophers and country store raconteurs--personality comedy, populism, parody, screwball comedy, romantic comedy and dark comedy. Tracing a rambling lineage from Ben Franklin to Mark Twain to Bob Hope to Steve Martin, the author presents a genealogy of glib antiheroes blowing raspberries at the world.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2023
Authors:	Wes D Gehring
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-8899-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-4766-8899-0
Barcode:	9781476688992

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