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Author | : Dan Lalande |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-08-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476692548 |
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This work offers a critical examination of 130 commercially-released film comedies of the 1970s. It considers the socio-political circumstances of each year of the decade, then critiques each film released that year with a focus on its effect on the film industry and the art of big screen comedy, as well as the emergence of talents whose work influenced (or was influenced by) the zeitgeist of the decade. Covering popular titles like M*A*S*H, Blazing Saddles, American Graffiti, The Bad News Bears, Smokey and the Bandit and many more, it argues that the 1970s may rightly be considered the last golden age of film comedy.
Author | : Dan Lalande |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-08-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 147664974X |
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This work offers a critical examination of 130 commercially-released film comedies of the 1970s. It considers the socio-political circumstances of each year of the decade, then critiques each film released that year with a focus on its effect on the film industry and the art of big screen comedy, as well as the emergence of talents whose work influenced (or was influenced by) the zeitgeist of the decade. Covering popular titles like M*A*S*H, Blazing Saddles, American Graffiti, The Bad News Bears, Smokey and the Bandit and many more, it argues that the 1970s may rightly be considered the last golden age of film comedy.
Author | : Mike Sacks |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0143123785 |
Download Poking a Dead Frog Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Patton Oswalt, and many more take us deep inside the mysterious world of comedy in this fascinating, laugh-out-loud-funny book. Packed with behind-the-scenes stories—from a day in the writers’ room at The Onion to why a sketch does or doesn’t make it onto Saturday Night Live to how the BBC nearly erased the entire first season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus—Poking a Dead Frog is a must-read for comedy buffs, writers and pop culture junkies alike.
Author | : The Editor of Ben Is Dead Magazine |
Publisher | : Little Brown & Company |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780316102827 |
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An alphabetical encyclopedia of 1970s and 1980s pop culture is at once a send up and celebration of the icons of the times, offering nearly one thousand entries that range from eight-tracks and Farrah Fawcett to Valley Girls and break dancing. Original.
Author | : John Kennedy Toole |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802197620 |
Download A Confederacy of Dunces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Author | : Hal Kanter |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download So Far, So Funny Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At 18, Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip for the princely sum of $10 per week-before he was fired. It was then he heard an Eddie Cantor radio show and realized that he could write better jokes than the famed comedian's writers were providing him. Interestingly enough, Cantor's writers agreed with him, at least to some degree, and hired the brash young man to work with them on the Jack Oakie radio show. Thus was born one of the more interesting and varied careers in Hollywood. Kanter's writing career went from radio shows to screenplays to television series. Along the way he worked with such luminaries as Bob Hope, Frank Capra, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and a host of others. Awarded an Emmy for writing The George Gobel Show, he was the creator of Julia, the ground-breaking television series. Though he went on to enjoy great success as a producer and director, Kanter always considered himself, first and foremost, a writer. And just how many scripts has he written? "More than I can lift," he says.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Grady Hendrix |
Publisher | : Quirk Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1594749825 |
Download Paperbacks from Hell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An affectionate, nostalgic, and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more who’ve faded into obscurity. Also included are recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.
Author | : Dan Jenkins |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-03-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307574520 |
Download Dead Solid Perfect Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author. Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about life on the PGA Tour. To some, Kenny Lee Puckett, the star of Jenkins's ribald saga, is a more important figure in the history of golf than Bobby Jones himself.
Author | : George Verongos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06-09 |
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ISBN | : |
Download My Dad is Dead Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With one foot in memoir and the other in fiction, My Dad is Dead recounts the experiences of the author as a young boy (I always wanted to say that) growing up as the last of four children and the only boy to Greek-American parents.