Too Funny for Words
Subtitle: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
Publisher: McFarland
Published: Apr 12, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781476678566
Description: "American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of sound, comedies in the 1930s were a riot of runaway heiresses and fast-talking screwballs. It was more than a technological pivot -- the first feature-length sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), changed Hollywood"--
Notes: Source title: Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball