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• Biographies (4) • Encyclopedias (4) • Dictionaries (1) • Essays (5) • Films Reviews (3) • Studies (66) • Stories (3) • Screenplays (1) • Didactic (1)
• Biographies (1) • Encyclopedias (0) • Dictionaries (0) • Essays (1) • Films Reviews (0) • Studies (9) • Stories (0) • Screenplays (0) • Didactic (0)
• Biographies (4 books)(1 book)
The Ritz Brothers (2021)
The Films, Television Shows and Other Career Highlights of the Famous Comedy Trio
by Roy Liebman
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Ritz Brothers
Last Man Standing (2017)
Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
by James Curtis
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Stan and Ollie (2004)
The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
• Encyclopedias (4 books)(0 book)
Three Stooges FAQ (2011)
Everything Left to Know About the Eye-Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Actor > The Three Stooges
The Screwball Comedy Films (2001)
A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
by Duane Byrge and Robert Milton Miller
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Columbia Comedy Shorts (1998)
Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933–1958
by Ted Okuda and Edward Watz
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Dictionaries (1 book)(0 book)
Comedy Quotes from the Movies (2001)
Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed
by Larry Langman and Paul Gold
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Lines and dialogues
• Essays (5 books)(1 book)
Sex, Politics, and Comedy (2020)
The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader (2019)
Dir. Ian Wilkie
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Stoogeology (2007)
Essays on the Three Stooges
Dir. Peter Seely and Gail W. Pieper
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > The Three Stooges
What Made Pistachio Nuts? (1992)
Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
• Films Reviews (3 books)(0 book)
The Drop Dead Funny '70s (2023)
American Film Comedies Year by Year
by Dan Lalande
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s (2016)
Twelve American Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Military Comedy Films (2012)
A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918
by Hal Erickson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Studies (66 books)(9 books)
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy (2025)
Dir. Peter C. Kunze and William V. Costanzo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Mixed Feelings in France (2025)
White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy
Publisher: transcript publishing
Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture (2024)
From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Eccentric Laughter (2024)
Queer Possibilities in Postwar British Film Comedy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Hollywood Sex Comedies, 1953–1964 (2024)
A Critical Analysis of 25 Films
by Hal Erickson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Film, Environment, Comedy (2024)
Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen
by Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Kinds of American Film Comedy (2024)
Six Core Genres and Their Literary Roots
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Haunted Laughter (2024)
Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Inside Comedy (2023)
The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 (2023)
Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Spoofing the Vampire (2022)
Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy
Dir. Simon Bacon
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Routledge Library Editions - Comedy (2022)
11 Volume Set
Collective
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy (2021)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration
by Jack Black
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Funny How? (2021)
Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor
by Alex Clayton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Isn't that Clever (2020)
A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Film, Comedy, and Disability (2020)
Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability
by Alison Wilde
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Legacies of the Drunken Master (2020)
Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films
by Luke White
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Subject: Genre > Martial Arts
When the World Laughs (2020)
Film Comedy East and West
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films (2019)
In conversation with Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Film Comedy and the American Dream (2019)
by Zach Sands
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Hitchcock and Humor (2019)
Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Too Funny for Words (2019)
A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
by David Kalat
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Hal Roach Comedy Shorts of Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly (2018)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Studio > Hal Roach Studios
How Did Lubitsch Do It? (2018)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Mock Classicism (2018)
Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960
by Nilo Couret
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Hysterical! (2017)
Women in American Comedy
Dir. Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Movie Comedians of the 1950s (2016)
Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Classical Hollywood Comedy (2016)
Dir. Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Popular Film and Television Comedy (2016)
by Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
I Won't Grow Up! (2015)
The Comic Man-Child in Film from 1901 to the Present
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
I Do and I Don't (2014)
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: Sociology
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film (2013)
by Ryan Bishop
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Art of the Screwball Comedy (2013)
Madcap Entertainment from the 1930s to Today
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Tashlinesque (2012)
The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Director > Frank Tashlin
The Funny Parts (2011)
A History of Film Comedy Routines and Gags
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Historical Comedy on Screen (2011)
Dir. Hannu Salmi
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Forties Film Funnymen (2010)
The Decade's Great Comedians at Work in the Shadow of War
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Marx Brothers as Social Critics (2009)
Satire and Comic Nihilism in Their Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov (2009)
Laughing Matters
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Director > Grigorii Aleksandrov
Currents of Comedy on the American Screen (2009)
How Film and Television Deliver Different Laughs for Changing Times
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (2009)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comedy of Philosophy (2008)
Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick
by Lisa Trahair
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Film Clowns of the Depression (2007)
Twelve Defining Comic Performances
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies (2007)
"Anything Further Father?"
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
The Art of Laurel and Hardy (2006)
Graceful Calamity in the Films
by Kyp Harness
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
Tears of Laughter (2006)
Comedy-Drama in 1990s British Cinema
by Nigel Mather
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Horror Spoofs of Abbott and Costello (2004)
A Critical Assessment of the Comedy Team's Monster Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Abbott & Costello
The Runaway Bride (2002)
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930's
Publisher: Cooper Square
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Comedy Is a Man in Trouble (2002)
Slapstick in American Movies
by Alan Dale
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Boys (2001)
The Cinematic World of Laurel and Hardy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
A Chorus Of Raspberries (2000)
British Film Comedy 1929-1939
by David Sutton
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Terms of Endearment (1998)
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s
Dir. Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood (1998)
From Lubitsch to Sturges
by James Harvey
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Giving Up the Ghost (1998)
Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Contesting Tears (1997)
The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Sociology
Laughing Hysterically (1996)
American Screen Comedy of the 1950s
by Ed Sikov
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Unruly Woman (1995)
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Sociology
Pursuits of Happiness (1981)
The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comic Mind (1979)
Comedy and the Movies
by Gerald Mast
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
• Stories (3 books)(0 book)
There's a Body in the Window Seat! (2022)
The History of Arsenic and Old Lace
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: One Film > Arsenic and Old Lace
Funny (2012)
The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy
by David Misch
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
• Screenplays (1 book)(0 book)
Bringing Up Baby (1988)
Howard Hawks, Director
Dir. Gerald Mast
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: One Film > Bringing Up Baby
• Didactic (1 book)(0 book)
Laughing Out Loud (2000)
Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
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