Comedy is a man in trouble slapstick in American movies / Alan Dale.
| Author/creator | Dale, Alan S., 1960- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, |
| Description | xiv, 270 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-245) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 00009080 |
| ISBN | 0816636575 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816636583 (pbk. : alk. paper) |