The success of clown comedy is dependent on the comic or comics who take center stage. These comi...

This book presents a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical estimate of Laurel & Ha...

This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behin...

From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a comp...

Traditionally identified with screwball comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a condui...

As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the...

'I find myself always being drawn into Wes' comedic researchand storytelling by its insights into...

Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilariou...

?Gehring's biobibliography of Charlie Chaplin is the work of a mature scholar fully familiar and ...

The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number ...

'Well-researched and informative, this volume brings new light on the comedians' contribution to ...