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  • Gehring Beside Himself
    Wes D. Gehring
    'Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship.' ChoiceIn the movie GRAND CANYON, Steve Martin’s character discovers a troubled friend who has not seen the film SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS, and says, 'That’s part of your problem, you haven’t seen enough movies. All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies. It’s a story about a man who loses his way...and he forgets for a moment...
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    28,54 €

  • Kinds of American Film Comedy
    Wes D. Gehring
    This groundbreaking 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 Robert Benchley, Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields. Six comic film genres are identified as outgrowths of a national tradition of Cracker Barrel philosophers, per...
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    109,79 €

  • Charlie Chaplin and A Woman of Paris
    Wes D. Gehring
    Charlie Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris (1923) was a groundbreaking film which was neither a simple recycling of Peggy Hopkins Joyce’s story, nor quickly forgotten. Through heavily-documented 'period research,' this book lands several bombshells, including Paris is deeply rooted in Chaplin’s previous films and his relationship with Edna Purviance, Paris was not rejected by heart...
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    71,92 €

  • Hitchcock and Humor
    Wes D. Gehring
    Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as 'a kind of Rear Window for retirees.' As this quote suggests, an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s methodical use of comedy in his films is past due. One of Turner Classic Movies’ on-screen scholars for their summer 2017 online Hitchcock class, the author grew tired of misleading throwaway references to the director...
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    57,19 €

  • Buster Keaton in His Own Time
    Wes D. Gehring
    Buster Keaton 'can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair,' wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic 'theater of the absurd,' speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. If you thought you knew Keaton--think again! ...
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    58,61 €

  • Movie Comedians of the 1950s
    Wes D. Gehring
    The 1950s were a transitional period for film comedians. The artistic suppression of the McCarthy era and the advent of television often resulted in a dumbing down of motion pictures. Cartoonist-turned-director Frank Tashlin contributed a funny but cartoonish effect through his work with comedians like Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope. A new vanguard of comedians appeared without st...
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    58,50 €

  • Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s
    Wes D. Gehring
    This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about death--hardly Fred and Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a breaking of formula that director Robert Altman called 'anti-genre.' Altman’s MASH (1970) ridiculed the military establishment in ...
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    58,64 €

  • Chaplin’s War Trilogy
    Wes D. Gehring
    The book examines Charlie Chaplin’s evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the genre in a groundbreaking manner but yet for a pro-war cause. In Dictator dark comedy is applied in an antiwar way. In Monsieur Verdoux Chaplin embraces the genre as an individua...
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    58,59 €

  • Will Cuppy, American Satirist
    Wes D. Gehring
    Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with such fast company: Will Cuppy (1884-1949). This factual funnyman’s metier is dark comedy that flirts with nihilism. His agenda...
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    57,48 €

  • I, Red Skelton
    Wes D. Gehring / Wes DGehring
    'I find myself always being drawn into Wes’ comedic researchand storytelling by its insights into the history, politics andsociology of the period explored. In that context, his gift is notonly that of a researcher but also a 'decoder' of what leads areader to exclaim. ’Oh, so that’s how he (the subject) got thatway.’'- Steve Bell, former anchor forABC News and Good Morning, Am...
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    28,02 €

  • Forties Film Funnymen
    Wes D. Gehring
    The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining comic performances. Ranging from The Great Dictator (1940) to A Southern Yankee (1948), each film focuses on the most central theme of 'clown comedy': Resilience, the encouragement or hope that one can survive the most daunting of life’s dilemmas--even during the war-...
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    42,82 €

  • Film Clowns of the Depression
    Wes D. Gehring
    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. Focusing upon the Depression era, the study filters its analysis through twelve memorable pictures....
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    58,53 €

  • Joe E. Brown
    Wes D. Gehring
    As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and spunk helped his family get through hard times but also fueled his fascination with entertainment, and he built up a repertoir...
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    51,33 €

  • Irene Dunne
    Wes D Gehring / Wes D. Gehring / Wes DGehring / Wes Gehring
    This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1985, Dunne’s acting highlights include five Best Actress Oscar nominations, occurring in almost as many different genres: the Western Cimarron (1931), two screwball comedies: Theodora Goes Wild (1936) and The A...
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    72,17 €

  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium
    Wes D. Gehring
    Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the 'feel good' movie genre now known as populism, which celebrates people, families, second chances, and other traditional American icons such as small town or pastoral life and baseball. Capra developed his own brand of populism by interweaving traditional values of the genre with a younger, more vulnerable he...
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    43,07 €

  • Groucho and W. C. Fields
    Wes D. Gehring
    Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilarious smudges on the genre, comedy was anything but. Here in a captivating book comparing and contrasting these two premier American comics is the history of how flimflam came to prevail as a major comic form. These two comic geniuses excelled at a new brand of shtick, antiheroic humor ...
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    50,32 €