The Columbia comedy shorts two-reel Hollywood film comedies 1933-1958 9780786405770, 9781476610108, 147661010X

Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies 9781628928600, 9780826418227

This book explores the work of Dino Risi with The Easy Life (1962), The Monsters (1963), The New Monsters (1977), and Sc

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A Companion to Film Comedy

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Comedy Acting for Theatre: The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies 9781350012769, 9781350012790, 9781350012752

Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience,

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Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood 9780520950122

This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest

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Hollywood romantic comedy: States of Union, 1934–1965 9781847791702

'Hollywood romantic comedy' explores the changing representation of the couple in three cycles of movies. The

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The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale 9780231851145

Since the movie industry’s earliest days, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. In the first boo

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Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film 9780231505437

Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Using nine Hollywood gen

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American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film 9781474470841

Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This is evidenced in the release of a rash of films of thi

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Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film 1859846718, 9781859846711

Peter Wollen's book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about film.

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American Politics in Hollywood Film 9780748646289

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612468); How is the American political landscape represented in cinema?

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