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Kinds of American Film Comedy : Six Core Genres and Their Literary Roots, Paperback / softback Book

Kinds of American Film Comedy : Six Core Genres and Their Literary Roots Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This unusual film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to and overlapping the advent of film--including some who worked both on the page and on the screen, like Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W.C.

Fields. Six comic film genres are indentified as outgrowths of a national tradition of cracker barrel philosophers and country store raconteurs--personality comedy, populism, parody, screwball comedy, romantic comedy and dark comedy.

Tracing a rambling lineage from Ben Franklin to Mark Twain to Bob Hope to Steve Martin, the author presents a genealogy of glib antiheroes blowing raspberries at the world.

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