John Montgomery

Comedy Films 1894-1954 (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us laughing in the cinema. This edition, first published in 1968 has been revised but the period it covers remains the same, 1894-1954, sixty years of film humour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000579093
• Artikelnr.: 63902725

Autorenporträt

John Montgomery

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Norman Wisdom. Foreword. 1. The First Comedies 2. The Hepworth
Story 3. The Fun Continues 4. Early Film Studios 5. The Rise of the
American Film 6. The Keystone Touch 7. Chaplin - The Perfect Clown 8.
Harold Lloyd 9. The Roaring Twenties 10. The End of Visual Comedy 11. All
Talking! 12. The Thirties 13. The British Quota Boom 14. Crosby and Company
15. Walt Disney 16. The Eccentrics 17. The Forties 18. The Summing Up 19.
Flashback. Acknowledgements. Index of Names.