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- Some trends in American and European film comedy from 1894 to 1929 / Frank Scheide##- Pie queens and virtuous vamps: The funny women of the silent screen / Kristen Anderson Wagner##- The American slapstick short and the coming of sound / Rob King##- Carnivalesque comedy and the Marx Brothers / Frank Krutnik##- Jacques Tati and comedic performance / Kevin W. Sweeney##- Woody Allen / David R. Shumway##- Mel Brooks / Henry Jenkins##- The intimate scenarios of romantic comedy / Celestino Deleyto##- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / Leger Grindon##- Comedy in the contemporary "Homme-com" cycle / Tamar Jeffers McDonald##- Flirting with disaster / Lucy Fischer##- Hollywood's mythical monarchies, troubled republics, and crazy kingdoms / Charles Morrow You can't take it with you / William Paul##- To be or not to be / Maria DiBattista##- Dark comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude / Mark Eaton##- Black film comedy as vital edge: A reassessment of the genre / Catherine A. John##- American Indian film comedies on the hilarity of poverty / Joshua B. Nelson##- Ethnic humor in American film: The Greek Americans / Dan Georgakas##- Alexander Mackendrick: Dreams, nightmares, and myths in Ealing comedy / Claire Mortimer##- Gender, humor, and the plastic body in two Korean comedies / Jane Park##- Comedy "Italian style" and I soliti ignoti / Roberta Di Carmine##- Humor, loss, and the posibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman##- The case of animated comedy / Paul Wells##- Theatrical cartoon comedy / Suzanne Buchan.

Comedy films --- Comic, The. --- Films comiques --- Comique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique

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With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920's, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work on cinema and stardom in the 1920's, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, institutional, and aesthetic issues at work in American cinema of this time. Attentive to stardom as an ensemble of texts, contexts, and social phenomena stretching beyond the cinema, major scholars provide careful analysis of the careers of both well-known and now forgotten stars of the silent and early sound era-Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Talmadge sisters, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Emil Jannings, Al Jolson, Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, Lincoln Perry, and Marie Dressler.

Motion picture actors and actresses --- Actors --- Actresses

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Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of "man's best friends" (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen cannot be separated from their increasing presence in our lives over the past century. The representation and visualization of dogs in cinema, as of other animals, has influenced our understanding of what dogs "should" do and be, for us and with us. Adrienne L. McLean expertly shepherds these original essays into a coherent look at "real" dogs in live-action narrative films, from the stars and featured players to the character and supporting actors to those pooches that assumed bit parts or performed as extras. Who were those dogs, how were they trained, what were they made to do, how did they participate as characters in a fictional universe? These are a just a few of the many questions that she and the outstanding group of scholars in this book have addressed. Often dogs are anthropomorphized in movies in ways that enable them to reason, sympathize, understand and even talk; and our shaping of dogs into furry humans has had profound effects on the lives of dogs off the screen. Certain breeds of dog have risen in popularity following their appearance in commercial film, often to the detriment of the dogs themselves, who rarely correspond to their idealized screen versions. In essence, the contributors in Cinematic Canines help us think about and understand the meanings of the many canines that appear in the movies and, in turn, we want to know more about those dogs due in no small part to the power of the movies themselves.

Dogs in motion pictures. --- Dogs in moving-pictures --- Motion pictures --- Dogs in the movies.

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