This book is both a scholarly study of silent comedy movies, and an illustrated guide to the major comedians for the general reader. It covers such characters as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy. The author is one of America's foremost film and theatre critics. He treats the subject of film comedians with much affection, and includes many anecdotes and stories. He is also a lucid theorist, attempting to explain how and why we laugh.
- ISBN10 0306803879
- ISBN13 9780306803871
- Publish Date 21 March 1990 (first published 31 December 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 10 August 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Imprint Da Capo Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English