Forties Film Funnymen: The Decade's Great Comedians at Work in the Shadow of War

by Wes D. Gehring

The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining comic performances. Ranging from The Great Dictator (1940) to A Southern Yankee (1948), each film focuses on the most central theme of "clown comedy" Resilience, the encouragement or hope that one can survive the most daunting of life's dilemmas--even during the war-torn 1940s. And each film can be regarded as a microcosm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786442573
• ISBN13: 9780786442577
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher