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Forties Film Funnymen: The Decade's Great Comedians at Work in the Shadow of War
Forties Film Funnymen The Decade's Great Comedians at Work in the Shadow of War
Author: Wes D. Gehring
The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining comic performances. Ranging from The Great Dictator (1940) to A Southern Yankee (1948), each film focuses on the most central theme of "clown comedy": Resilience, the encouragement or hope that one can survive the most daunting of life's ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786442577
ISBN-10: 0786442573
Publication Date: 4/26/2010
Pages: 234
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Publisher: McFarland
Book Type: Paperback
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