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  • Buster Keaton in His Own Time

    What the Responses of 1920s Critics Reveal

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    Buster Keaton "can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair," wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic "theater of the absurd," speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. If you thought you knew Keaton--think again! ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Steve McQueen

    The Great Escape

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    The poster-child victim of a dysfunctional family from Beech Grove, Indiana, Steve McQueen experienced an unsettled early life with a rebellious and alcoholic mother. McQueen channeled his difficult childhood into a masterful career on screen portraying tough, self-sufficient characters in such iconic films as The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Bullitt ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Red Skelton

    The Mask behind the Mask

    by Wes Gehring ...
    Series series Indiana biography series
    For more than twenty years, Hoosier comic Red Skelton entertained millions of viewers who gathered around their television sets to delight in the antics of such notable characters as Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kaddiddlehopper, Cauliflower McPugg, and Sheriff Deadeye. Noted film historian Wes D. Gehring examines the man behind the characters—someone who never let the facts get in the way of a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Gehring Lost & Found: Selected Essays

    by Wes Gehring ...
    "Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship"– ChoiceIn a 1979 Frank Capra letter to the author, the director wrote, in part, " I thoroughly enjoyed your 'McCarey vs Capra' article [included in the anthology]. I must also tell you that we were intimate friends. "WES D. GEHRING is the Distinguished Professor of Film at Ball State University and associate media editor of USA Today Magazine, ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitchcock and Humor

    Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "a kind of Rear Window for retirees." As this quote suggests, an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's methodical use of comedy in his films is past due.One of Turner Classic Movies' on-screen scholars for their summer 2017 online Hitchcock class, the author grew tired of misleading throwaway references to the director's "comic relief." This ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Movie Comedians of the 1950s

    Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    The 1950s were a transitional period for film comedians. The artistic suppression of the McCarthy era and the advent of television often resulted in a dumbing down of motion pictures. Cartoonist-turned-director Frank Tashlin contributed a funny but cartoonish effect through his work with comedians like Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope. A new vanguard of comedians appeared without stock comic garb or make ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Charlie Chaplin and A Woman of Paris

    The Genesis of a Misunderstood Masterpiece

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923) was a groundbreaking film which was neither a simple recycling of Peggy Hopkins Joyce's story, nor quickly forgotten. Through heavily-documented "period research," this book lands several bombshells, including Paris is deeply rooted in Chaplin's previous films and his relationship with Edna Purviance, Paris was not rejected by heartland America, Chaplin ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Chaplin's War Trilogy

    An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the genre in a groundbreaking manner but yet for a pro-war cause. In Dictator dark comedy is applied in an antiwar way. In Monsieur Verdoux Chaplin embraces the genre as an individual in defense against a ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s

    Twelve American Films

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about death--hardly Fred and Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a breaking of formula that director Robert Altman called "anti-genre." Altman's MASH (1970) ridiculed the military establishment in general--the Vietnam ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy

    Charting the Difference

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    Series series Studies in Film Genres
    Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as popular today as ever!This book takes a closer look at the precise meanings of the terms screwball and romantic. Film fans and scholars alike tend to lump film with laughter and love under a screwball ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Kinds of American Film Comedy

    Six Core Genres and Their Literary Roots

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    This groundbreaking 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 Robert Benchley, Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields. Six comic film genres are identified as outgrowths of a national tradition of Cracker Barrel philosophers, personality comedy, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Will Cuppy, American Satirist

    A Biography

    by Wes D. Gehring ...
    Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with such fast company: Will Cuppy (1884-1949). This factual funnyman's metier is dark comedy that flirts with nihilism. His agenda is baldly stated in ... Read more

    $21.39 USD