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I. General
Bordwell, David, Janet
Staiger and Kristin Thompson. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style
and Mode of Production to 1960. New York: Columbia U. Press, 1985.
Bordwell, David and
Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw Hill, 2005.
Bordwell, David. The
Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2006.
Monaco, James. How
To Read a Film.
New York: Oxford U. Press, 1981
II. Comedy
Cavell, Stanley. Pursuits
of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.
Press, 1981.
Harvey, James. Romantic
Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.
Horton, Andrew S.,
ed. Comedy/Cinema/Theory. Berkeley: U. California Press, 1991.
Karnick, Kristine
Brunovsak and Henry Jenkins, eds. Classical Hollywood Comedy. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Mast, Gerald. The Comic Mind: Comedy and the
Movies. New
York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
Sikov, Ed. Laughing
Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s. New York: Columbia U. Press,
1994..
III. Directors
(Cukor)
Bernardoni, James. George Cukor: A Critical Study and Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1985.
Levy, Emmanuel. George Cukor, Master of Elegance. New York: Morrow, 1994.
Phillips, Gene D. George Cukor. Boston:
Twayne, 1982.
(Hawks)
Hillier, Jim and Peter Wollen, eds. Howard Hawks, American Artist. London: BFI, 1996.
Mast, Gerald, ed. Bringing Up Baby: Howard Hawks, Director. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Press, 1988.
McBride, Joseph, ed. Focus on Howard Hawks. Englewood Cliffs, MJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1972.
McBride, Joseph. Hawks on Hawks. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1982.
(Keaton)
Moews, Daniel. Keaton: The
Silent Features Close Up. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1977.
Robinson, David. Buster Keaton. Bloomington, IN: Indiana U. Press, 1969.
Whalen, Tom. "The Balloon of Equilibrium: Symmetry, Structures, and
Narrative Authority in Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith." Literature/Film
Quarterly Vol.
25, No. 1 (1997), 55-61.
(Lubitsch)
Eyman, Scott. Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.
Press, 2000.
Paul, William. Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy. New York: Columbia U. Press,
1987.
Poague, Leland A. The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1978.
(Sturges)
Jacobs, Diane. Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges. Berkeley: U. of California
Press, 1992.
Pym, John. The Palm Beach
Story. London:
BFI, 1998.
(Tashlin)
Garcia, Roger. Frank Tashlin. London: BFI, 1994.
IV. Select
Filmography of American Comedies
1. THE SILENT COMEDIANS
Buster Keaton - The
Three Ages (1923), Our Hospitality
(1923), Sherlock
Jr. (1924), The Navigator (1924), Seven Chances (1925), Go
West (1925), Battling Butler
(1926), The General (1926), College (1927), Steamboat
Bill, Jr. (1927), The Cameraman (1928)
Newmeyer and Taylor (actor: Harold Lloyd) - Safety
Last
(1923), Girl Shy (1924), The Freshman (1925)
Charlie Chaplin - The Gold Rush (1925), The
Circus (1928), City Lights (1931), Modern
Times (1936), The Great Dictator
(1940), Monsieur
Verdoux (1947)
2. THE VAUDEVILLIANS
The Marx Brothers
(various directors) - The Coconuts (1929), Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey
Business (1931), Horsefeathers (1932), Duck
Soup (1933), A Night at the Opera
(1935)
Mae West (various directors)
- She Done Him Wrong (1933), I'm No Angel (1933), Belle
of the Nineties (1934), Goin' to
Town (1935)
W.C. Fields (various directors)
- Six of a Kind (1934), The
Bank Dick (1940)
3. THE CLASSICAL
HOLLYWOOD COMEDY
Gregory La Cava - The Half -Naked Truth
(1932), She Married
Her Boss (1935), My Man Godfrey
(1936), Stage Door (1937), Unfinished Business (1941)
Leo McCarey - Duck Soup (1933), Six
of a Kind (1934), The Awful Truth
(1937)
Ernst Lubitsch - Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design
for Living (1933), The Merry Widow
(1934), Angel (1937), Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), Ninotchka (1939), The
Shop Around the Corner (1940), That Uncertain Feeling (1941), To
Be or Not to Be (1942), Heaven Can Wait
(1943), Cluny Brown (1946)
Frank Capra - It Happened One Night (1934), Mr.
Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), It's
a Wonderful Life (1946)
George Cukor - Holiday (1938), The
Philadelphia Story (1940), Adam's Rib
(1949) Born Yesterday (1951), It Should Happen to
You (1954), Heller
in Pink Tights
(1960)
Preston Sturges - The Great McGinty (1940), Christmas
in July (1940), The Lady Eve
(1941), Sullivan's
Travels (1942), The Palm Beach Story (1942),
The Miracle at Morgan's Creek
(1944), Hail the
Conquering Hero (1944), Mad Wednesday (1947), Unfaithfully Yours (1948), The Beautiful
Blond from Bashful Bend (1949)
Howard Hawks - Bringing Up Baby (1938), His
Girl Friday
(1940), Ball of Fire (1941), I
Was a Male War Bride (1949), Monkey Business (1952), Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes (1953), Man's Favorite Sport
(1964)
George Stevens - Woman of the Year (1942), The
Talk of the Town (1942), The More the Merrier
(1943)
Alfred Hitchcock - Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), The Trouble With Harry
(1955), Family Plot (1976)
4. THE 1950s AND EARLY
1960s
Frank Tashlin - Son of Paleface
(1952), Artists and
Models (1955), Hollywood or Bust
(1955), The Girl Can't
Help It (1955), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), Cinderfella (1960), Bachelor Flat (1962), It's Only Money (1962), Who's
Minding the Store? (1963), The Disorderly Orderly (1964), The
Alphabet Murders (1966)
Billy Wilder - The Seven Year Itch (1955), Some
Like it Hot (1959), One, Two, Three
(1961), Kiss Me,
Stupid (1964), The Fortune Cookie
(1966)
John Huston - Beat the Devil (1954)
Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
- The Court Jester (1956)
Jerry Lewis - The Bellboy (1960), The
Ladies Man (1961), The Errand Boy
(1961), The Patsy (1964), Which
Way to the Front? (1970), Hardly Working (1981), Cracking
Up (1983)
Roger Corman - The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Ralph Nelson - Soldier in the Rain (1963)
Stanley Donen - Charade (1963), Bedazzled (1967)
Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned
to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964)
Blake Edwards - The Pink Panther (1964), A
Shot in the Dark (1964), The Party (1968), The
Return of the Pink Panther (1975), 10 (1975), The
Man Who Loved Women (1983), Blind Date (1987), Switch (1991)
Richard Lester - A Hard Day's Night (1964), The Knack (1965), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum
(1966), How I Won the War (1967), The Bed Sitting Room (1969), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), Finders Keepers (1984)
Elliot Silverstein - Cat Ballou (1965)
George Axelrod - Lord Love a Duck (1966)
5. CONTEMPORARIES
A. Directors of the
1970s
Paul Mazursky - Bob & Carol & Ted
& Alice (1969), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Moon Over Parador (1988), Scenes
From a Mall (1991), The Pickle
(1993)
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H (1970), Brewster
McCloud (1970), The Long Goodbye (1973), Buffalo
Bill and the Indians (1976), H.E.A.L.T.H.
(1979), O. C. &
Stiggs (1985), Beyond Therapy
(1987), The Player (1992)
Irvin Kershner - A Fine Madness (1966), The
Flim Flam Man (1967), Robocop 2 (1990)
Woody Allen - Bananas (1971), Sleeper
(1973), Love and Death (1975), Manhattan (1979), Stardust Memories (1980), A
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
(1982), Zelig (1983), Broadway
Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah
and Her Sisters (1986), Radio Days
(1987), Crimes and
Misdemeanors (1989), Husbands and Wives
(1992), Manhattan
Murder Mystery (1993), Bullets Over Broadway
(1994), Mighty
Aphrodite (1995), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Deconstructing
Harry (1997), Small Time Crooks (2000), The Curse of the Jade
Scorpion (2001),
Anything Else
(2004), Melinda and Melinda (2005), Scoop (2006)
Peter Bogdanovich - What's Up, Doc? (1972), Nikolodeon (1976), They
All Laughed
(1982), Noises Off! (1992)
George Lucas - American Graffiti (1973)
Mel Brooks - The Producers (1968), Young Frankenstein (1974)
John Carpenter - Dark Star (1974), Big
Trouble in Little China (1986)
Michael Ritchie - Smile (1975), The
Survivors (1983), Wildcats (1986), Cops
and Robbersons (1994)
Jonathan Demme - Citizens Band (1977), Something Wild (1986), Swimming
to Cambodia (1987), Married to the Mob
(1988)
Brian de Palma - Home Movies (1979), Bonfire
of the Vanities (1990)
B. 1980 to the
Present
Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
(1980)
Mike Hodges - Flash Gordon (1980)
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom
(1984), Indiana Jones
and the Last Crusade (1989)
Louis Malle - My Dinner With Andre (1981)
Alex Cox - Repo Man (1984)
Larry Cohen - The Stuff (1985)
Martin Scorsese - After Hours (1985)
Dan O'Bannon - Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Joel & Ethan Coen - Raising Arizona (1987), The Big Lebowski (1999)
Alan Rudolph - Choose
Me (1984), Trouble in Mind (1985), Love at Large (1990)
Tim Burton - Pee -wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Mars Attacks! (1997)
Susan Seidelman - Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Joe Dante - Innerspace (1987), The
'Burbs (1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch
(1990), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), Looney Tunes: Back in
Action
(2003)
Sam Raimi - Army of Darkness (1993)
Harold Ramis - Groundhog Day (1993), Ice Harvest (2005)
John McTiernan - Last Action Hero (1993)
Amy Heckerling - Clueless (1995)
Cameron Crowe - Jerry Maguire (1996)
Griffin Dunne - Addicted to Love (1997)
Alexander Payne - Election (1999)
Steve Miner - Lake Placid (1999)
Curtis Hanson - Wonder Boys (2000)
Paul Verhoeven - Starship Troopers (1997)
Nancy Meyers - Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006)
Mike Mitchell - Sky High (2005)
Shane Black - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
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