Class, Language, and American Film Comedy

by Christopher Beach

Book Overview

Examining the evolution of American film comedy since the beginning of the sound era (c. 1930), Christopher Beach focuses on how language, class, and social relationships in early sound comedies by the Marx Brothers, the screwball comedies of the 1930s by Capra, Sturges and others, and 1950s comedies of Frank Tashlin and Vincente Minnelli, and contemporary films by Woody Allen, Whit Stillman, and the Coen brothers. Beach argues that sound and narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521002095
• ISBN13: 9780521002097
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.2"