The success of clown comedy is dependent on the comic or comics who take center stage. These comi...

Screwball Comedy

This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Ho...

'Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship.' - Choice In a 1979 Frank Capra letter to th...

The 1950s were a transitional period for film comedians. The artistic suppression of the McCarthy...

This book presents a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical estimate of Laurel & Ha...

Traditionally identified with screwball comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a condui...

As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the...

?Gehring's biobibliography of Charlie Chaplin is the work of a mature scholar fully familiar and ...

This first full-length biography of a legendary and award-winning Hollywood writer, producer, and...

Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as ''a kind of Rear Window for retirees...

With the cooperation of Benchley family members, and using diaries and correspondence and much ar...

The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number ...

Including over 60 titles each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930's to the pres...

Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, ...

From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a comp...

Buster Keaton 'can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is...

'The book examines Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder...

'Well-researched and informative, this volume brings new light on the comedians' contribution to ...

All students of the Great Man's'career will have to rely on this work. . . . Perhaps Gehring's gr...

'Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship.' - Choice In a 1979 Frank Capra letter to th...

This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behin...

'I find myself always being drawn into Wes' comedic researchand storytelling by its insights into...

Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilariou...

Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923) was a groundbreaking film which was neither a simple re...

This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading...

The history of film by one who teaches it.

The history of film by one who teaches it.