Great Comedy Films Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Funny Movies
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2023
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2023
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The scandalous world of Great Comedy Films is torn wide-open, with sordid tales of sex, money, drugs, power, prostitution, hedonism, and shenanigans that make this book a “must-buy”. Now that we have your attention...
This weighty tome in your hands details everything you need to know about “Comedy” in the “World” of “Motion Pictures.” We’re talking history, notable personalities, important films, useless trivia and comedy techniques – all to impress your friends, family and that special someone at the bar at closing time.
With this book as a guide, you'll enjoy comedy films and live a happy, balanced, cultured and knowledgeable life. What more do you want? And the font is really big and there are pictures!
Welcome to Great Comedy Films: Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Funny Movies. It's the third edition - so you know we did something right!!
Chapter 1 The Birth of Comedy Film
Chapter 2 The History of Silent Film—Part I
Chapter 3 Artist Spotlight—Charlie Chaplin
Chapter 4 Super Great Movie Spotlight—The Gold Rush (1925)
Chapter 5 Artist Spotlight—Buster Keaton
Chapter 6 Super Great Movie Spotlight—The General (1927)
Chapter 7 The History of Silent Comedy Film—Part II
Chapter 8 The Comedies Started Talking
Chapter 9 Super Great Movie Spotlight—It Happened One Night (1934)
Chapter 10 Artist Spotlight—W.C.Fields and Mae West
Chapter 11 Artist Spotlight—The Marx Brothers
Chapter 12 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Duck Soup (1933)
Chapter 13 Artist Spotlight—Directors Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges, and George Cukor
Chapter 14 Super Great Movie Spotlight—The Philadelphia Story (1941)
Chapter 15 Artist Spotlight—Actors Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart
Chapter 16 Artist Spotlight—Directors Frank Capra and Howard Hawks
Chapter 17 From the World of War to the Cold of War
Chapter 18 Focus on Subgenre—Romantic Comedy—Part I
Chapter 19 Artist Spotlight—Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, and Jack Lemmon
Chapter 20 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Some Like It Hot (1959)
Chapter 21 Hollywood Gets Really Silly and Desperate
Chapter 22 Focus on Subgenre—Dark/Black Comedy
Chapter 23 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Dr.Strangelove (1964) or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Chapter 24 Welcome to the “New Hollywood”—Comedy Edition
Chapter 25 Focus on Subgenre—Parody, Spoof, and Satire
Chapter 26 Super Great Movie Spotlight—The Graduate (1967)
Chapter 27 Artist Spotlight—Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Mike Nichols, and Blake Edwards
Chapter 28 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Blazing Saddles (1974)
Chapter 29 Artist Spotlight—Peter Sellers, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman, and Burt Reynolds
Chapter 30 Super Great Movie Spotlight—M*A*S*H (1970)
Chapter 31 Artist Spotlight—Woody Allen
Chapter 32 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Annie Hall (1977)
Chapter 33 Artist Spotlight—Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, and Steve Martin
Chapter 34 Artist Spotlight—Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, and John Belushi
Chapter 35 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Airplane! (1980)
Chapter 36 Film Comedy Takes Over The World—The 1980s
Chapter 37 An Exclusive Interview with Director John Landis
Chapter 38 Artist Spotlight—Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, and Robin Williams
Chapter 39 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Ghostbusters (1984)
Chapter 40 Focus on Subgenre—Romantic Comedy—Part II
Chapter 41 Focus on Subgenre—Teen/Coming-of-Age Comedy
Chapter 42 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986
Chapter 43 Focus on Subgenre— Mockumentaries and Gross-Out Comedy
Chapter 44 Super Great Movie Spotlight—This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Chapter 45 Welcome to the 1990s–2000s
Chapter 46 Artist Spotlight—Billy Crystal and Adam Sandler
Chapter 47 Artist Spotlight—Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, and Will Ferrell
Chapter 48 Super Great Movie Spotlight—There’s Something About Mary (1998)
Chapter 49 Artist Spotlight—The Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, and Judd Apatow
Chapter 50 Super Great Movie Spotlight—Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Chapter 51 Comedy Films in the Twenty-First Century
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Chris LaMont has been teaching film analysis and production at Arizona State University in the School of Film, Dance & Theater since 2003. He’s also an award-winning screenwriter, film producer and director, a founder of the Phoenix Film Festival, and numerous other talents that are far too lengthy to print here. He thinks he’s a lot funnier than he actually is. Check out his websites at www.chrislamont.com and www.greatcomedyfilms.com.