Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy - Couverture souple

Austerlitz, Saul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1556529511 ISBN 13 : 9781556529511

Editeur : Chicago Review Press, 2010

Synopsis

Charlie Chaplin. Buster Keaton. The Marx Brothers. Billy Wilder. Woody Allen. The Coen brothers. Where would the American film be without them? Yet the cinematic genre these artists represent--comedy--has perennially received short shrift from critics, film buffs, and the Academy Awards.

Saul Austerlitz's Another Fine Mess is an attempt to right that wrong. Running the gamut of film history from City Lights to Knocked Up, Another Fine Mess retells the story of American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother--the comedy. In 30 long chapters and 100 shorter entries, each devoted primarily to a single performer or director, Another Fine Mess retraces the steps of the American comedy film, filling in the gaps and following the connections that link Mae West to Doris Day, or W. C. Fields to Will Ferrell. The first book of its kind in more than a generation, Another Fine Mess is an eye-opening, entertaining, and enlightening tour of the American comedy, encompassing the masterpieces, the box-office smashes, and all the little-known gems in between.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Saul Austerlitz is a writer living in New York City. His work has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Slate, the Boston Globe, and other publications. He is the author of Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video from the Beatles to the White Stripes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chicago Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1556529511
• ISBN 13: 9781556529511
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible