Preface Laurel & Hardy Biography stan & ollie: the comic antiheroes Laurel & Hardy: Period Reflections "Those Two Goofy Guys" "Ka-Plop and Ka-Bloop: Laurel and Hardy Reveal What Makes You Hear Such Funny Things" "Encore: An Interview/Articel Collage" A Laurel & Hardy Bibliographical Essay Bibliographical Checklist of Key Laurel & Hardy Sources Chronology Filmography Selected Discography Index
... a fresh, definitive study of the comic duo who carried the mantle of laughter from silent to sound movies... This remarkable, readable, insightful and comprehensive work of scholarship should be a standard resource for every library. Choice
WES D. GEHRING is a Professor in the Department of Communications at Ball State University. He was named BSU Outstanding Young Faculty, 1982-1983 and Outstanding Researcher, 1985-1986.
.,."Laurel and Hardy: A Bio-Bibliography provides the reseracher
and the student with everything he or she needs to know about the
comedy duo; and, quite frankly, it supercedes a lot of the books
which have gone before. Recommended."-Classic Images
?...Laurel and Hardy: A Bio-Bibliography provides the reseracher
and the student with everything he or she needs to know about the
comedy duo; and, quite frankly, it supercedes a lot of the books
which have gone before. Recommended.?-Classic Images
?Continuing his exceptional series of substantial reference works
on film comedy--Charles Chaplin; W.C. Fields; The Marx Brothers
--Gehring adds this welcome volume, a fresh, definitive study of
the comic duo who carried the mantle of laughter from silent into
sound movies. Gehring's biographical section weaves the team's
personal lives and professional careers into a fascinating
tapestry, giving order, clarity, and cogency to a complex tangle of
details, events, and creative sources (e.g., comic strips, music
halls, marital crises, director Leo McCarey, and neglected
comedians like Larry Semon.) Included with the biographical
checklist (which itself is a veritable goldmine) are reprints of
key historical articles and interviews, a basic filmography, a
helpful chronology, a critical analysis of works on Laurel and
Hardy, and a reworking of Gehring's own classic article on comic
antiheroes. This remarkably readable, insightful, and comprehensive
work of scholarship should be a standard resource for every
library. It is a superlative model for all future
biobibliographies, as well as an extremely enjoyable and
informative book.?-Choice
?Laurel and Hardy: A Bio-Bibliography presents a combined
biographical, critical and bibliographical portrait of the Laurel &
Hardy comedy team. It evaluates their significance in film comedy,
the arts in general, and as popular culture icons. This should be a
welcome addition to the material on the duo for both its condensing
and critiquing of the earlier material and its own assessment of
their careers.?-Sightlines
"Laurel and Hardy: A Bio-Bibliography presents a combined
biographical, critical and bibliographical portrait of the Laurel &
Hardy comedy team. It evaluates their significance in film comedy,
the arts in general, and as popular culture icons. This should be a
welcome addition to the material on the duo for both its condensing
and critiquing of the earlier material and its own assessment of
their careers."-Sightlines
..."Laurel and Hardy: A Bio-Bibliography provides the reseracher
and the student with everything he or she needs to know about the
comedy duo; and, quite frankly, it supercedes a lot of the books
which have gone before. Recommended."-Classic Images
"Continuing his exceptional series of substantial reference works
on film comedy--Charles Chaplin; W.C. Fields; The Marx Brothers
--Gehring adds this welcome volume, a fresh, definitive study of
the comic duo who carried the mantle of laughter from silent into
sound movies. Gehring's biographical section weaves the team's
personal lives and professional careers into a fascinating
tapestry, giving order, clarity, and cogency to a complex tangle of
details, events, and creative sources (e.g., comic strips, music
halls, marital crises, director Leo McCarey, and neglected
comedians like Larry Semon.) Included with the biographical
checklist (which itself is a veritable goldmine) are reprints of
key historical articles and interviews, a basic filmography, a
helpful chronology, a critical analysis of works on Laurel and
Hardy, and a reworking of Gehring's own classic article on comic
antiheroes. This remarkably readable, insightful, and comprehensive
work of scholarship should be a standard resource for every
library. It is a superlative model for all future
biobibliographies, as well as an extremely enjoyable and
informative book."-Choice
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