Wes D. Gehring is a professor of film at Ball State University and an associated media editor and columnist for USA Today magazine. Gehring has written biographies of such screen legends as Charlie Chaplin, Carole Lombard, James Dean and Red Skelton.
11 Ebooks par Wes D. Gehring
Wes D. Gehring: Irene Dunne
This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1985, Dunne’s acting highlight …
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Wes D. Gehring: Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy
Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as po …
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Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Forties Film Funnymen
The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining comic performances. Ranging from The Great Dictator (1940) to A Southern Yankee (1948), ea …
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Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Joe E. Brown
As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as …
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Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Film Clowns of the Depression
The 1930s are routinely considered sound film’s greatest comedy era. Though this golden age encompassed various genres of laughter, clown comedy is the most basic type. This work examines the Depress …
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Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Will Cuppy, American Satirist
Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was anothe …
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Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Chaplin’s War Trilogy
The book examines Charlie Chaplin’s evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the …
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€33.48
Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s
This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical…about death–hardly Fred and Ginger te …
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€33.30
Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Movie Comedians of the 1950s
The 1950s were a transitional period for film comedians. The artistic suppression of the Mc Carthy era and the advent of television often resulted in a dumbing down of motion pictures. Cartoonist-tur …
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Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Buster Keaton in His Own Time
Buster Keaton "can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair, " wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later …
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€33.28
Gehring Wes D. Gehring: Hitchcock and Humor
Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "a kind of Rear Window for retirees." As this quote suggests, an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s methodical use of comedy in his …
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