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• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to ...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralBefore Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent....

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The 1950s were a transitional period for film comedians. The artistic suppression of the McCarth...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining com...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe success of clown comedy is dependent on the comic or comics who take center stage. These comics are usually identified with a specific comedi...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralFrom Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Pl...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The 1930s are routinely considered sound film's greatest comedy era. Though this golden age enco...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy The American Film Institute has ranked Some Like it Hot as the greatest comedy of the 20th centu...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring | Steve Bell • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIncluding over 60 titles each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930's to the present...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "a kind of Rear Window for retir...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: Film - General

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behi...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James T...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism"Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship." ChoiceIn the movie GRAND CANYON, Steve Martin's character d...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: GeneralThis book presents a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical estimate of Laurel & Hardy's significance in film comedy, the arts in ...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Humorous - General"I find myself always being drawn into Wes' comedic research and storytelling by its insights into the history, politics and ...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesThis bio-bibliography was designed to present a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical portrait of the Marx ...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, ...