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Another Fine Mess

Another Fine Mess

A History of American Film Comedy

by Saul Austerlitz
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/09/2010

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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."
ISBN:
9781556529511
9781556529511
Category:
Film theory & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x27.94mm
Weight:
0.71kg
Saul Austerlitz

Saul Austerlitz is a pop culture historian and the author of four previous books, including Just a Shot Away and Sitcom. His work has been published by The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times. He is a graduate of Yale and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and is an adjunct professor of writing and comedy history at NYU.

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