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Currents of comedy on the American screen : how film and television deliver different laughs for changing times / Nicholas Laham.
- Title
- Currents of comedy on the American screen : how film and television deliver different laughs for changing times / Nicholas Laham.
- Author
- Laham, Nicholas.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.C55 L24 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 208 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book analyzes the evolution of comedy, defining five distinct periods and discussing the dominant comedic trends of each: screwball comedies, offering distraction from the Great Depression; suspense comedy, reflecting America's darker worldview during World War II; 1950s battle-of-the-sexes comedy; the shift from the physical, exaggerated comedy of 1950s to more realistic plotlines"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-202) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Laughing during troubled times: the art of screwball comedy -- Film comedy highlights the dark side of American life -- Film and television comedy takes a feminist perspective on American life -- The ultimate reality-based television -- Sitcom? The Dick Van Dyke Show revisited -- The resurrection of suspense comedy since the 1980s.
- ISBN
- 9780786442645 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0786442646
- LCCN
- ^^2009012371
- OCLC
- 277136416
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library