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BL
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1036156
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b790526
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| Main Entry
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Dale, Alan S.,1960-
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| Title & Author
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Comedy is a man in trouble : : slapstick in American movies /\ Alan Dale.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2000.
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1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0816691975
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: 9780816691975
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0816636575
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0816636583
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9780816636570
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9780816636587
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface; 1. Comedy Is a Man in Trouble; 2. Chaplin as Proteus, Low-Down and High Up; 3. Junior: Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton; 4. Girl Heroes; 5. The Marx Brothers: The Buoyant Refuse of Our Teeming Shore; 6. Preston Sturges: Girl in a Jam, Boy in a Jam; 7. Jerry Lewis: The Once and Future King of Comedy; Coda; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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| Abstract
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Comedy Is a Man in Trouble presents a lively, accessible, and lavishly illustrated look at a form of comedy that has been expanded and refashioned in film by everyone from W.C. Fields and Marion Davies to Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Here is not only an amusing look at film comedy history, but an insight into the human condition and what causes us to laugh.
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Comedy films-- United States-- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures-- United States-- History and criticism.
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Films comiques-- États-Unis-- Histoire et critique.
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Comedy films.
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Familienserie
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Filmkomödie
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Geschichte
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Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- History Criticism.
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Slapstick.
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Film.
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United States.
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USA.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/617791.43617
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| LC Classification
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PN1995.9.C55D35 2000eb
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AP 59483rvk
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AP 59483.rvk
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