Classical Hollywood comedy / edited by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins.

Contributor Karnick, Kristine Brunovska, 1958-

Imprint:New York : Routledge, 1995.

Descriptionviii, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Golden eras and blind spots / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick. - A spanner in the works? / Frank Krutnik. - Comedy, melodrama, and gender / Kathleen Rowe. - Funny stories / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins. - Crazy machines in the garden of forking paths : mischief gags and the origins of American film comedy / Tom Gunning. - Pie and chase : gag, spectacle and narrative in slapstick comedy / Donald Crafton. - Responses to "pie and chase" / Tom Gunning. - Commitment and reaffirmation in Hollywood romantic comedy / Kristine Brunovska Karnick. - Acting funny / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick. - The Keystone Film Company / Doug Riblet. - The making of a comic star : Buster Keaton and The saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer. - Goin' to town and beyond : Mae West, film censorship and the comedy of unmarriage / Ramona Curry. - The laughing stock of the city : male dread, performance anxiety and Unfaithfully yours / Henry Jenkins. - Comedy and the social world / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins. - Divorce, DeMille, and the comedy of remarriage / Charles Musser. - Romantic love and friendship : the redefinition of gender relations in screwball comedy / Tina Olsin Lent. - Queerness, comedy, and The women / Alex Doty.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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