Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the 'feel good' movie genre now k...

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

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

The 1930s are routinely considered sound film's greatest comedy era. Though this golden ageenco...

'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...

Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Ro...

The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, S...

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

The 1950s were a transitional period for film comedians. The artistic suppression of the McCarthy...

This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Ho...

Buster Keaton 'can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is...