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• Author(s): Anthony Balducci • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Classic comedy routines and individual gags have been around for many hundreds of years, proba...

• Author(s): Nicholas Laham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book analyzes the evolution of film and television comedy from the 1930s through the present, defining five...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General On stage from her childhood, Martha Raye (1916-1994) proudly embraced the role o...

• Author(s): Mitchell E. Shapiro | Tom Jicha • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism A number of books and articles have been written ranking the best situati...

• Author(s): David Kalat • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of s...

• Author(s): Larry Langman | Paul Gold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a stapl...

• Author(s): Bill Cosby • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: ComedyNow in paperback, the national bestseller from the funniest man in America, who looks back at his life . . . bit by bit. Wi...

• 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): Gary Poole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism This book is a real find--for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of ...

• 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): Ted Okuda | Edward Watz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood's fin...

• Author(s): Scott Lewellen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This oral history of television sitcom writing offers the perspectives of 22 of the best and most prolific...

• Author(s): Barry Putterman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Television comedy traces its roots to vaudeville, radio and film, from which it developed its own unique ...

• Author(s): Duane Byrge | Robert Milton Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism My Man Godfrey, Four's a Crowd, My Favorite Wife, The Devil and Miss Jones--...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Created around the world and available only on the web, Internet "television" series are ...

• Author(s): Blair Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Many movie genres developed during the silent era, but none was as lasting as comedies. Actors and...

• 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): Bob Newhart • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsThe first book ever from an icon of American comedy -- a hilarious combination of stories fro...

• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military come...

• Author(s): Antonio Savorelli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This book explores the mechanisms that have driven the evolution of televisual comedy from the classic ...

• Author(s): Alex Clayton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, many Hollywood slapstick films can be understood as comic meditation...

• Author(s): Plautus | Peter L. Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalA major comic artist in Republican Rome, Plautus left a legacy of twenty extremely inventive...

• Author(s): Doyle Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This work examines the unique and ever-changing relationship between politics and comedy through an analysis...

• Author(s): Jamie Brotherton | Ted Okuda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Dorothy Lee is best remembered for her screen appearances with the popular comedy team of Bert Whe...

• Author(s): David Geherin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores...

• 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): Bruce G. Hallenbeck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era an...

• Author(s): K. a. Wisniewski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comedy Perhaps best known for his highly acclaimed, short-lived Comedy Central program Chappelle's Show, Dave Chappelle is wi...

• Author(s): Dante Alighieri • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsA stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literature An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the ...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The Emmy-nominated star of the classic 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, Joan Davis (1912-1961) was also radio's hig...

• Author(s): Dante Alighieri • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: European - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey ...

• Author(s): James L. Neibaur • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy Andy Clyde starred in the second-longest series of shorts at Columbia Pictures (after the Three Stooge...

• 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): Thomas C. Renzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two ...

• Author(s): Robert Alan Crick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comedy Mel Brooks is often regarded as one of Hollywood's funniest men, thanks to such highly successful films as The Produc...