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Comedy is a man in trouble slapstick in American movies /
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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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Vonnegut and Hemingway writers at war /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Family secrets: the absent mother and father -- Hemingway's sun, Vonnegut's night: the spoils of war -- Duty dance with death: A farewell to arms and Slaughterhouse-five -- Spiritual manifestos: Breakfast of champions, Death in the afternoon, and Green hills of Africa -- From Jailbird to canary bird: To have and have not and Jailbird -- Anima and animus in For whom the bell tolls and Slapstick -- A soldier's confessions: Across the river and into the trees and Hocus pocus -- Now it's women's turn: The rescue of Eurydice -- A literary farewell: Timequake and Under kilimanjaro.…”
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Trial by Farce : A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage /
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