Abbott and Costello on the Home Front: A Critical Study of the Wartime Films

ISBN-13: 9781476678207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Scott Allen Nollen

Spis treści

• Foreword by Chris Costello
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. New Jersey Boys Make Good
• 2. On the Land and On the Sea: Buck Privates (1941) and In the Navy (1941)
• 3. Money in a Moose Head: Hold That Ghost (1941)
• 4. In the Air Corps: Keep ’Em Flying (1941)
• 5. B Western Bunk: Ride ’Em Cowboy (1942)
• 6. The Nazis of MGM: Rio Rita (1942)
• 7. Widespread Comic Relief: Pardon My Sarong (1942) and Who Done It? (1942)
• 8. Stallions and Skaters: It Ain’t Hay (1943) and Hit the Ice (1943)
• 9. Sickness and Slapstick: Lost in a Harem (1944)
• 10. Clique and Campus: In Society (1944) and Here Come the Co-eds (1945)
• 11. Who’s in Uncle Tom’s Cabin? The Naughty Nineties (1945)
• 12. Lucy and Lou: Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
• 13. Postwar Experiments: Little Giant (1946) and The Time of Their Lives (1946)
• 14. Back from the Front: Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
• 15. Cold War Monsters
• Appendix: The Feature Films of Abbott and Costello
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index