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

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

Buster Keaton "e;can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after a...

Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "e;a kind of Rear Window for ret...

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

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

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

The 1930s are routinely considered sound film's greatest comedy era. Though this golden ageenco...

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

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

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

Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Ro...