An edition of Currents of comedy on the American screen (2009)
Currents of comedy on the American screen
how film and television deliver different laughs for changing times
By Nicholas Laham
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Publish Date
2009
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,McFarland & Co.
Language
eng
Pages
208
Description:
"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.