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Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (2025)
Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd and the Rolin Film Co.
Dir. Steve Massa
Publisher: Split Reel
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
W. C. Fields (2025)
A Biography
by James Curtis
Publisher: Emmarac Editions
Subject: Actor > W.C. Fields
The Ritz Brothers (2021)
The Films, Television Shows and Other Career Highlights of the Famous Comedy Trio
by Roy Liebman
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Ritz Brothers
Last Man Standing (2017)
Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
by James Curtis
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Stan and Ollie (2004)
The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
Three Stooges FAQ (2011)
Everything Left to Know About the Eye-Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Actor > The Three Stooges
The Screwball Comedy Films (2001)
A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
by Duane Byrge and Robert Milton Miller
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Columbia Comedy Shorts (1998)
Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933–1958
by Ted Okuda and Edward Watz
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Comedy Quotes from the Movies (2001)
Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed
by Larry Langman and Paul Gold
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Lines and dialogues
Homo Viator in Contemporary European Comedy Movies (2025)
by Artur Skweres and Adam Domalewski
Publisher: Springer
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Sex, Politics, and Comedy (2020)
The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Wild and Crazy Guys (2020)
How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
Publisher: Crown
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Object of Comedy (2020)
Philosophies and Performances
Dir. Jamila M. H. Mascat and Gregor Moder
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader (2019)
Dir. Ian Wilkie
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Understanding Comedy Through College Comedies (2018)
by Norman Kagan
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Mockumentary Comedy (2018)
Performing Authenticity
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Comedies of Nihilism (2018)
The Representation of Tragedy Onscreen
by Amir Khan
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Python beyond Python (2017)
Critical Engagements with Culture
Dir. Paul N. Reinsch, B. Lynn Whitfield and Robert G. Weiner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Actor > Monty Python
Laurel and Hardy's Comic Catastrophes (2017)
Laughter and Darkness in the Features and Short Films
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
The Laughing Dead (2016)
The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland
Dir. Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Divine Film Comedies (2016)
by Terry Lindvall, J. Dennis Bounds and Chris Lindvall
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film (2015)
Comedy Italian Style
by Andrea Bini
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Stoogeology (2007)
Essays on the Three Stooges
Dir. Peter Seely and Gail W. Pieper
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > The Three Stooges
What Made Pistachio Nuts? (1992)
Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Drop Dead Funny '70s (2023)
American Film Comedies Year by Year
by Dan Lalande
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s (2016)
Twelve American Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Military Comedy Films (2012)
A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918
by Hal Erickson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy (2025)
Dir. Peter C. Kunze and William V. Costanzo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Mixed Feelings in France (2025)
White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy
Publisher: transcript publishing
Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture (2024)
From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Eccentric Laughter (2024)
Queer Possibilities in Postwar British Film Comedy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Hollywood Sex Comedies, 1953–1964 (2024)
A Critical Analysis of 25 Films
by Hal Erickson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Film, Environment, Comedy (2024)
Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen
by Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Kinds of American Film Comedy (2024)
Six Core Genres and Their Literary Roots
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Haunted Laughter (2024)
Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema (2023)
Dir. Emilio Audissino and Emile Wennekes
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Inside Comedy (2023)
The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 (2023)
Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Spoofing the Vampire (2022)
Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy
Dir. Simon Bacon
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Routledge Library Editions - Comedy (2022)
11 Volume Set
Collective
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy (2021)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration
by Jack Black
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Funny How? (2021)
Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor
by Alex Clayton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Isn't that Clever (2020)
A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Film, Comedy, and Disability (2020)
Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability
by Alison Wilde
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Legacies of the Drunken Master (2020)
Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films
by Luke White
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Subject: Genre > Martial Arts
When the World Laughs (2020)
Film Comedy East and West
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films (2019)
In conversation with Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Film Comedy and the American Dream (2019)
by Zach Sands
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Hitchcock and Humor (2019)
Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
West African Screen Media (2019)
Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Too Funny for Words (2019)
A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
by David Kalat
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Hal Roach Comedy Shorts of Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly (2018)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Studio > Hal Roach Studios
The Comedy Studies Reader (2018)
Dir. Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
How Did Lubitsch Do It? (2018)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Mock Classicism (2018)
Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960
by Nilo Couret
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Hysterical! (2017)
Women in American Comedy
Dir. Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Movie Comedians of the 1950s (2016)
Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Classical Hollywood Comedy (2016)
Dir. Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Popular Film and Television Comedy (2016)
by Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Sounding Funny (2016)
Sound and Comedy Cinema
Dir. Mark Evans and Philip Hayward
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
A Companion to Film Comedy (2015)
Dir. Andrew Horton and Joanna E. Rapf
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
I Won't Grow Up! (2015)
The Comic Man-Child in Film from 1901 to the Present
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
I Do and I Don't (2014)
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: Sociology
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film (2013)
by Ryan Bishop
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Art of the Screwball Comedy (2013)
Madcap Entertainment from the 1930s to Today
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comic Mind (2012)
Comedy and the Movies
by Gerald Mast
Publisher: Ward & Balkin Agency
Subject: Silent Cinema
British Comedy Cinema (2012)
Dir. I. Q. Hunter and Laraine Porter
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Tashlinesque (2012)
The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Director > Frank Tashlin
The Funny Parts (2011)
A History of Film Comedy Routines and Gags
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Historical Comedy on Screen (2011)
Dir. Hannu Salmi
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Forties Film Funnymen (2010)
The Decade's Great Comedians at Work in the Shadow of War
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Slapstick Comedy (2010)
Dir. Tom Paulus and Rob King
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Marx Brothers as Social Critics (2009)
Satire and Comic Nihilism in Their Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov (2009)
Laughing Matters
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Director > Grigorii Aleksandrov
Currents of Comedy on the American Screen (2009)
How Film and Television Deliver Different Laughs for Changing Times
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (2009)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comedy of Philosophy (2008)
Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick
by Lisa Trahair
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Film Clowns of the Depression (2007)
Twelve Defining Comic Performances
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies (2007)
"Anything Further Father?"
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
The Art of Laurel and Hardy (2006)
Graceful Calamity in the Films
by Kyp Harness
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
Tears of Laughter (2006)
Comedy-Drama in 1990s British Cinema
by Nigel Mather
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Cities of Words (2004)
Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
Publisher: Belknap Press
Subject: Theory
The Horror Spoofs of Abbott and Costello (2004)
A Critical Assessment of the Comedy Team's Monster Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Abbott & Costello
The Runaway Bride (2002)
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930's
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Comedy Is a Man in Trouble (2002)
Slapstick in American Movies
by Alan Dale
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Boys (2001)
The Cinematic World of Laurel and Hardy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
A Chorus Of Raspberries (2000)
British Film Comedy 1929-1939
by David Sutton
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Terms of Endearment (1998)
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s
Dir. Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood (1998)
From Lubitsch to Sturges
by James Harvey
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Giving Up the Ghost (1998)
Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Contesting Tears (1997)
The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Sociology
Laughing Hysterically (1996)
American Screen Comedy of the 1950s
by Ed Sikov
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Unruly Woman (1995)
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Sociology
Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy (1983)
by William Paul
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Pursuits of Happiness (1981)
The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comic Mind (1979)
Comedy and the Movies
by Gerald Mast
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Silent Cinema
Billy Wilder and Some Like It Hot (2026)
The Genesis of America's Greatest Screen Comedy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: One Film > Some Like It Hot
There's a Body in the Window Seat! (2022)
The History of Arsenic and Old Lace
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: One Film > Arsenic and Old Lace
Funny (2012)
The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy
by David Misch
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Bringing Up Baby (1988)
Howard Hawks, Director
Dir. Gerald Mast
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: One Film > Bringing Up Baby
Writing the Comedy Movie (2015)
by Marc Blake
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Laughing Out Loud (2000)
Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
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