Great Movie Comedians - Hardcover
An appreciative retrospective survey of the great American film comedians combines history, nostalgia, and criticism with nearly two hundred stills
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Leonard Maltin is one of the world’s most respected film critics and historians. He is best known for his widely-used reference work Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide and its companion volume Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, now in its third edition, as well as his thirty-year run on television’s Entertainment Tonight. He teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and appears regularly on Reelz Channel and Turner Classic Movies. His books include The 151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, The Great Movie Comedians, The Disney Films, The Art of the Cinematographer, Movie Comedy Teams, The Great American Broadcast, and Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia. He served two terms as President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, is a voting member of the National Film Registry, and was appointed by the Librarian of Congress to sit on the Board of Directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation. He hosted and co-produced the popular Walt Disney Treasures DVD series and has appeared on innumerable television programs and documentaries. He has been the recipient of awards from the American Society of Cinematographers, the Telluride Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, and San Diego’s Comic-Con International. Perhaps the pinnacle of his career was his appearance in a now-classic episode of South Park. (Or was it Carmela consulting his Movie Guide on an episode of The Sopranos?) He holds court at leonardmaltin.com. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook; you can also listen to him on his weekly podcast: Maltin on Movies with Baron Vaughn.
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- PublisherCrown Publishers
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0517532417
- ISBN 13 9780517532416
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- Number of pages238
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Since the birth of motion pictures, audiences around the world have looked to the great movie comedians for the welcome laughter and the comic view of life their films provide. Today a new generation is discovering the same films that made people laugh forty, fifty, even sixty years ago, learning that great comedy is timeless. Now film historian Leonard Maltin, whose earlier subjects have ranged from Wait Disney to Our Gang, provides fascinating new insights to the great movie comedians -what made each unique, how their careers developed, which films stand out among their work and why. His cogent essays are spiced with memorable incidents from the films and fresh anecdotes and observations on their creation. Each critique is accompanied by an exhaustive filmography and a gallery of rare photographs, many of which have never appeared in print before. The book examines not only the classic clowns-Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Langdon, Laurel & Hardy-but also some of the neglected figures of film history: Mabel Normand, the screen's first great comedienne; Charley Chase, comedy's unsung hero; Raymond Griffith, the comedian's comedian; the scandal-plagued Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle; and Will Rogers, whose reputation as a homespun philosopher has tended to obscure his long and interesting film career. From the sound era Maltin takes a look at such luminaries as W. C. Fields, Mae West, the Marx Brothers, Joe E. Brown. Danny Kaye, the new 'talking' comics such as Bob Hope and Red Skelton, as well as the combined slapstick and verbal mayhem of comedy teams like The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello. Here too are the great movie comedians of our own time': Jerry Lewis, who almost single-handedly carried the banner of film comedy through the 1960s, when television drained the screen of comic talent; and Woody Alien, the movies' latest comedy superstar who, in the tradition of the earlier comedians, writes and directs as well as stars in his own films. Perhaps more than anything else, THE GREAT MOVIE COMEDIANS points up the continuity in screen comedy, the progression that has nurtured new ideas and welcomed individual talents while building upon the Foundations of the past. This fresh, thoughtful, and appreciative look at the great funny men of the last half century will be of immense interest to all film buffs. LEONARD MALTIN prepared this book while serving as guest director of the Museum of Modern Art's Bicentennial Salute to American Film Comedy in 1976. The task of selecting, scheduling, and notating some 450 films provided him with the opportunity to observe and study the work of the great movie comedians. He also served as curator of the American Academy of Humor in 1975 and 1976. His books include Movie Comedy Teams, Behind the Camera, The Great Movie Shorts The Disney Films, Carole Lombard, Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals (with Richard Bann), and TV Movies the reference guide to 10,000 films on television. His articles have appeared in 'many leading publications including The New York Time, Esquire, TV Guide. Saturday Review, American Film, and Film Comment. He is a member of the faculty of the New School for Social Research, and he lectures on film at colleges around the country. He lives in New York City with his wife, Alice, and their two very funny dogs. Autographed by the author. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 000805
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