Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball by David Kalat

Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball

David Kalat

260 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

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American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of sound, comedies in the 1930s were a riot of runaway heiresses and fast-talking screwballs. It was more than a technological pivot--the first ...

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