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Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball

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"American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of sound, comedies in the 1930s were a riot of runaway heiresses and fast-talking screwballs. It was more than a technological pivot -- the first feature-length sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), changed Hollywood"--

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    • Title: Too Funny for Words by David Kalat
    • Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
    • Print ISBN: 9781476678566, 1476678561
    • eText ISBN: 9781476636528
    • Edition: 2019
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