American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire by Gehring, Wes D.

American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313261848)

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American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire by Gehring, Wes D.

American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire

$95.00
American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire by Gehring, Wes D.

American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and literary context, Gehring explores the genre's obession with death and the characters' failure to be shocked by it. Movies discussed include: Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-2, Clockwork Orange, Harold and Maude, Heathers, and Natural Born Killers.

Author: Wes Gehring
ISBN-10: 0313261849
ISBN-13: 9780313261848
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/30/1996
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.88d
By Wes Gehring
By Wes Gehring
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WES D. GEHRING is Professor of Film at Ball State University. He is author of ten previous books: Leo McCarey and the Comic Antihero in American Film (1980), Charlie Chaplin: A Bio-Bibliography (1983), W. C. Fields: A Bio-Bibliography (1984), Screwball Comedy: A Genre of Madcap Romance (1986), The Marx Brothers: A Bio-Bibliography (1987), Handbook of American Film Genres (1988), Laurel & Hardy: A Bio-Bibliography (1990), Mr. B. or Comforting Thoughts About the Bison: A Critical Biography of Robert Benchley (1992), Populism and the Capra Legacy (1995), all by Greenwood Press, and Groucho and W. C. Fields: Huckster Comedians (1994). His poems and humor pieces have appeared in numerous publications.

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