Comedy is a man in trouble slapstick in American movies / Alan Dale.

Author/creator Dale, Alan S., 1960-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxiv, 270 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Comedy Is a Man in Trouble 1 -- 2. Chaplin as Proteus, Low-Down and High Up 31 -- 3. Junior: Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton 59 -- 4. Girl Heroes 92 -- 5. The Marx Brothers: The Buoyant Refuse of Our Teeming Shore 132 -- 6. Preston Sturges: Girl in a Jam, Boy in a Jam 161 -- 7. Jerry Lewis: The Once and Future King of Comedy 190 -- Coda 213 -- Notes 221 -- Works Cited 237 -- Index 247.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-245) and index.
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LCCN 00009080
ISBN0816636575 (alk. paper)
ISBN0816636583 (pbk. : alk. paper)