The Hollywood comedies of Frank Tashlin
By: Ethan de Seife
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780819572400; 9780819572417
Subjects: Criticism and influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction the director who wasn't; title: Tish-Tash in cartoonland; title: Tashlin, comedy, and the "live-action cartoon"; title: "Hurry up! this is impossible!": Tashlin's early feature films; title: The artist and his model: Tashlin and Jerry Lewis in the 1950s; title: The director and the bombshell: Tashlin and Jayne Mansfield; title: Disorderly conduct: Tashlin in the 1960s; title: The man in the middle: Tashlin, auteurs, and programmers; title: Who's minding the store?: Tashlin's influence.