The funny parts : a history of film comedy routines and gags

Anthony Balducci, 1958- (Författare)

LCCN 2011043814, ISBN 9780786465132 · softcover : alk. paper

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Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012

310 p.

Anthony Balducci

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Comedy films--History and criticism, Komedi, Comedies

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Introduction -- And then there were pies -- Mannequins and other dummies -- Animals -- Adventures in eating -- Attack of the vamps -- Indecent exposure -- Spooky apparitions -- Bombs and burglars -- How to disguise yourself as furniture and fool -- Your friends -- The amazing trapdoor chase -- Science and magic -- Tooth extraction and laughing gas -- Into the looking glass -- Sleepless nights -- Fathers to sons of the desert -- The big jangly box, the sliding ladder and -- Other comic props -- The Buster Keaton variations -- The Harold Lloyd variations -- Hysterical history -- Bugs -- Scared black servants, dice-playing african -- Cannibals, and the most racist comedy in silent cinema history -- Other variations