Illustrations Foreword by Scott R. Olson Preface Parody Overview Everyone's Going West The Pre-Brooks King of Parody: Bob Hope…And Disciple Woody Allen Mel Brooks Two For The Road Epilogue Appendix: Selected Filmography Selected Bibliography Index
WES D. GEHRING is Professor of Film at Ball State University and Associate Media Editor at USA Today magazine. He is the author of a dozen books, including Screwball Comedy: A Genre of Madcap Romance (Greenwood, 1986), Personality Comedians as Genre (Greenwood, 1997), American Dark Comedy (Greenwood, 1996), Populism and the Capra Legacy (Greenwood, 1995), and Handbook of American Film Genres (Greenwood, 1988) He has also written biographies of W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, and Laurel and Hardy.
?[I]mmensely readable.... Recommended for all readership
levels.?-CHOICE
?Space is not the final frontier. Film is! That is exactly how I
felt after reading Wes Gehring's Parody as Film Genre. Each chapter
was a trip at warp speed to a moon surrounding planet Parody in a
galaxy far, far away where Gehring beamed me down to Star Wars
space bars of familiars and aliens from Hollywood's past. The
knowledge imparted was like a meteor, shower-brilliant...?-Film &
History
"�I�mmensely readable.... Recommended for all readership
levels."-CHOICE
"[I]mmensely readable.... Recommended for all readership
levels."-CHOICE
"Space is not the final frontier. Film is! That is exactly how I
felt after reading Wes Gehring's Parody as Film Genre. Each chapter
was a trip at warp speed to a moon surrounding planet Parody in a
galaxy far, far away where Gehring beamed me down to Star Wars
space bars of familiars and aliens from Hollywood's past. The
knowledge imparted was like a meteor, shower-brilliant..."-Film &
History
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