Classical Hollywood comedy
By: edited by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins.
Contributors: Karnick, Kristine Brunovska, 1958-; Jenkins, Henry, 1958-
Series: AFI film readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism; Love in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Golden eras and blind spots / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick; title: A spanner in the works? / Frank Krutnik; title: Comedy, melodrama, and gender / Kathleen Rowe; title: Funny stories / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins; title: Crazy machines in the garden of forking paths : mischief gags and the origins of American film comedy / Tom Gunning; title: Pie and chase : gag, spectacle and narrative in slapstick comedy / Donald Crafton; title: Responses to "pie and chase" / Tom Gunning; title: Commitment and reaffirmation in Hollywood romantic comedy / Kristine Brunovska Karnick; title: Acting funny / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick; title: The Keystone Film Company / Doug Riblet; title: The making of a comic star : Buster Keaton and The saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer; title: Goin' to town and beyond : Mae West, film censorship and the comedy of unmarriage / Ramona Curry; title: The laughing stock of the city : male dread, performance anxiety and Unfaithfully yours / Henry Jenkins; title: Comedy and the social world / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins; title: Divorce, DeMille, and the comedy of remarriage / Charles Musser; title: Romantic love and friendship : the redefinition of gender relations in screwball comedy / Tina Olsin Lent; title: Queerness, comedy, and The women / Alex Doty.