A companion to film comedy - Horton, Andrew; Rapf, Joanna E. (Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
- Some trends in American and European film comedy from 1894 to 1929 / Frank Scheide##- Pie queens and virtuous vamps: The funny women of the silent screen / Kristen Anderson Wagner##- The American slapstick short and the coming of sound / Rob King##- Carnivalesque comedy and the Marx Brothers / Frank Krutnik##- Jacques Tati and comedic performance / Kevin W. Sweeney##- Woody Allen / David R. Shumway##- Mel Brooks / Henry Jenkins##- The intimate scenarios of romantic comedy / Celestino Deleyto##- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / Leger Grindon##- Comedy in the contemporary "Homme-com" cycle / Tamar Jeffers McDonald##- Flirting with disaster / Lucy Fischer##- Hollywood's mythical monarchies, troubled republics, and crazy kingdoms / Charles Morrow You can't take it with you / William Paul##- To be or not to be / Maria DiBattista##- Dark comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude / Mark Eaton##- Black film comedy as vital edge: A reassessment of the genre / Catherine A. John##- American Indian film comedies on the hilarity of poverty / Joshua B. Nelson##- Ethnic humor in American film: The Greek Americans / Dan Georgakas##- Alexander Mackendrick: Dreams, nightmares, and myths in Ealing comedy / Claire Mortimer##- Gender, humor, and the plastic body in two Korean comedies / Jane Park##- Comedy "Italian style" and I soliti ignoti / Roberta Di Carmine##- Humor, loss, and the posibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman##- The case of animated comedy / Paul Wells##- Theatrical cartoon comedy / Suzanne Buchan.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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