High comedy in American movies
Subtitle: class and humor from the 1920s to the present
By: Steve Vineberg.
Series: Genre and beyond
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Notes: Filmography: p. 177-187.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Europe in Hollywood; title: High comedy, American style; title: High comedy and social satire; title: The poison in the champagne: what it's really like to be rich and famous; title: The aristocracy of the hip; title: The 1980s and beyond.