Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy

by Saul Austerlitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556529511
• ISBN13: 9781556529511
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.0"