Performing Arts
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After "Happily Ever After": Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age
The Hal Roach Comedy Shorts of Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly
Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
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The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields: How They Created The Basis for His Fame in Sound Films
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The Vanished World of Robert Youngson
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Hormones: The Movie
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The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields: How They Created The Basis for His Fame in Sound Films (hardback)
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Ayoade on Top
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So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We're Still So Obsessed with It)
The Drop Dead Funny '70s: American Film Comedies Year by Year
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The Hummingbird's Tour
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi
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From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
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"Aren't You Gonna Die Someday?" Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky: An Examination, Reflection, and Making Of (hardback)
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Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way Into Our Hearts
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The Joe E. Brown Films
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The Vanished World of Robert Youngson (hardback)
Guilty Pleasures': European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
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Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy (hardback)
The Comedy Studies Reader
The Marx Brothers and America: Where Film, Comedy and History Collide
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Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
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Made of Pen & Ink: Fleischer Studios, The Florida Years
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