Comedy Films 1894-1954

ISBN-13: 9781032212937 / Miękka / 2024 / 282 str.

John Montgomery

Opis

Originally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us laughing in the cinema. This edition, first published in 1968 has been revised but the period it covers remains the same, 1894-1954, sixty years of film humour.

Recenzje

Reviews for the original 1954 edition:

"Loaded with facts, names, titles, biographies and anecdotes, but trotting along easily enough to make reading comfortable, I can’t think of any other book devoted to the cheerful screen which bundles together not only the internationally famous English-speaking comics, but also the great army of good comedians, the multitude of players and the multitude of films too."  Dilys Powell wrote in The Sunday Times

"Highly informative and interesting and, for the middle-aged, almost unbearably nostalgic," said the New Statesman

"A little monument to painstaking research made readable by unswerving love," wrote Paul Dehn

"A valuable and fascinating book," said Maryvonne Butcher in The Tablet

Spis treści

Preface by Norman Wisdom.  Foreword.  1. The First Comedies  2. The Hepworth Story  3. The Fun Continues  4. Early Film Studios  5. The Rise of the American Film  6. The Keystone Touch  7. Chaplin – The Perfect Clown  8. Harold Lloyd  9. The Roaring Twenties  10. The End of Visual Comedy  11. All Talking!  12. The Thirties  13. The British Quota Boom  14. Crosby and Company  15. Walt Disney  16. The Eccentrics  17. The Forties  18. The Summing Up  19. Flashback.  Acknowledgements.  Index of Names.

O autorze

John Montgomery