Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies |
Contents
Comedy Is a Man in Trouble | 1 |
Chaplin as Proteus LowDown and High Up | 31 |
Junior Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton | 59 |
Girl Heroes | 92 |
The Marx Brothers The Buoyant Refuse of Our Teeming Shore | 132 |
Preston Sturges Girl in a Jam Boy in a Jam | 161 |
Jerry Lewis The Once and Future King of Comedy | 190 |
Coda | 213 |
Notes | 221 |
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