Shaula Evans at 2012-07-22 00:19:16:

Wow, it pays to dig. While look for comedy scripts tonight I came across this amazing bibliography of humor in film. This is an academic list, not a collection of "how to write comedy" books, but I hope you may find some of them helpful. I haven't read these myself (yet!) but I'll certainly be tracking many of them down. Accursi, Daniel. "Les `Gueules' du Cinéna Comique." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 116-122. Agee, James. "Comedy's Greatest Era." Humor in America. Ed. Enid Veron. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976, 281-97. Anderson, Janice. History of Movie Comedy. New York: Exeter, 1985. Anthony, Brian, and Andy Edmonds. Smile When the Raindrops Fall: The Story of Charley Chase. New York, NY: Scarecrow, 1998. Bacon, James. How Sweet It Is: The Jackie Gleason Story. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Bailey, Peter J. The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2001. Balordi, A. Emma Sopeña. "Les (Autres) Vacances de Monsieur Hulot." Humoresques 6 (1995): 95-104. Barth, J. "Kinks of Comedy." Film Comment 20.3 (1984): 44-47. Baudin, Henri. "Le "ça" retrouvé: l'irréalisme burlesque dans le dessin animé." Humoresques 6 (1995): 55-72. Baudin, Henri. "Sacha Guitry Cinéaste: La Fantaisie Novatrice," "Le Dessin Animé Comique, un Art pour l'Enfance?" CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 59-64, 206-212. Bendazzi, Giannaltergo. Cartoons: One-Hundred Years of Cinema Animation. Bloomingtion, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995. Bernstein, M., and D. Pratt. "Comic Ambivalence in 'Risky Business.'" Film Criticism 9.3 (1985): 33-43. Berthomieu, Pierre. "La Comédie Américaine: La Sophistication du Récit Edénique." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 86-91. Beylie, Claude. "Eloge du `Nanar' Français: le Comique Ringard." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 123-131. Bier, Jesse. "The Higher Criticism--Or Flash Gordon Revisited." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 7.1 (1984): 20-27. Bishop, Ellen. "Bakhtin, Carnival and Comedy: The New Grotesque in Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Film Criticism 15.1 (1990): 49-64. Blansfield, Karen C. "Woody Allen and the Comic Tradition in America." Studies in American Humor NS6 (1988): 142-153. Blayac, Alain. "De la littérature au cinéma: le cas d'Evelyn Waugh." Humoresques 6 (1995): 85-94. Bordat, Francis. "Chaplin, Le Comique Cenéaste." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 51-58 Bordat, Francis. "Sur quelques caractères du gagg chaplinien." Humoresques 6 (1995): 43-54. Brasch, Walter M. Cartoon Monickers: An Insight into the Animation Industry. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1983. Byrge, Duane, and Robert Milton Miller. The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography, 1934-1942. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991. Byron, Stuart, and Elisabeth Weis, eds. The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy." New York, NY: Grossman, 1977. Cavell, Stanley. Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Chamberlain, William, and Nancy Pogel. "Humor Into Film: Self Reflections in Adaptations of Black Comic Novels." Literature/Film Quarterly. 13.3 (1985): 187-193. Chard-Hutchinson, Martine. "Les Nourritures Spirituelles ou Quelques Histoires Juiives d'Amérique è l'écran." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 182-187. Chard-Hutchinson, Martine. "OEdipus Wrechs (New York Stories) et Manhattan: l'illusion comique chez Woody Allen." Humoresques 6 (1995): 129-139. Charney, Maurice. "Comic Creativity in Plays, Films, and Jokes." Handbook of Humor Research. Volume 2. Eds. Paul McGhee and Jeffrey Goldstein. NY: Springer-Verlag, 1983, 33-40. Charney, Maurice. "Preface." Pirandello and Film by Nina da Vinci Nichols and Jana O'Keefe Bazzoni. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, ix-xv. Charney, Maurice. "Woody Allen's Non Sequiturs." HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 8.4 (1995): 339-348. Ching, B., and R. Barnard. "From Screwballs to Cheeseballs, Comic Narrative and Ideology in Capra and Reiner." New Orleans Review 10.1 (1990): 3-13. Clausius, Claudia. The Gentleman Is a Tramp: Charlie Chaplin's Comedy. New York, NY: Lang, 1989. Cohen, Karl F. Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997. Conroy, M. "Crashing the Party in Scorceses's 'The King of Comedy.'" New Orleans Review 19.1 (1992): 72-80. Corrigan, Robert W. ed. Comedy: Meaning and Form. San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1965. Curry, Ramona. "Goin' To Town and Beyond: Mae West, Film Censorship, and the Comedy of Unmarriage." Film Comedy in History: Narrative, Performance, Ideology. Ed. Henry Jenkins and Kristine Karnick. 1995. D'Allonnes, Fabrice Revault. "Hors du Commun, Fioretti per Moretti." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 107-115. DeMourgues, Nicole. "Le Générique du Film Comique." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 14-21. Deleuil, Patricia. "Le comique de Tex Avery." Humoresques 6 (1995): 73-84. Doyno, Vic. "Recent Western Movies: A Speculation about Cultural Myths and Social Problems." Studies in Contemporary Satire 2 (1975): 4-8. Dudden, Arthur Power. "The Dimensions of American Humor." East-West Film Journal. 2 (1987): 3-16. Durgnat, Raymond. "Raymond Durgnat's World of Comedy." Films and Filming PARTS I-VII: 11.10 (1965): 8-13; 11.11 (1965): 10-15; 11.12 (1965): 8-12; 12.1 (1965): 16-20; 12.2 (1965): 14-19; 12.3 (1965): 42-48; 12.4 (1966): 40-46. Durgnat, Raymond. "Hollywood's Comedy of Manners." Films PARTS I-IV: 2.9 (1982): 20-23; 2.10 (1982): 18-21; 2.11 (1982): 16-19; 2.12 (1982): 16-19. Eaton, M. "Laughter in the Dark." Screen 22.2 (1981): 21-28. Erb, Cynthia. Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Erens, Patricia. "You Could Die from Laughing: Jewish Humor and Film." East West Film Journal 2.1 (1987): 50-61. Evans, Jeff. "Comic Rhetoric in Raising Arizona." Studies in American Humor NS4.3 (1996): 39-53. Everson, William K. "British Humor on the Screen." Films in Review 8.9 (1957): 433-442. Everson, William K. Hollywood Bedlam: Classic Screwball Comedies. New York, NY: Citadel, 1994. Everson, William K. "Screwball Comedy: A Reappraisal." Films in Review. 34 (December 1983): 578-584. Fairchild, Pete. "'Plastics': The Graduate as Film and Novel." Studies in American Humor NS4.3 (1985): 133-141. Fericano, Paul F., ed. Stoogism Anthology. Milbrae, CA: Scarecrow, 1977. Feuerhahn, Nelly. "Les Gagmen Associés: Maurice Baquet, Acteur de Maurice HJenry et Arthur Harfaux." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 132-139. Flashner, Graham. Fun with Woody: The Complete Woody Allen Quiz Book. NY: Henry Holt, 1987. Forrester, Jeffrey. The Stooge Chronicles. Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 1981. Fowkes, Katherine A. Giving Up the Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Franklin, Joe. Classics of the Silent Screen. New York, NY: Bramhall House, 1983. Franklin, Joe. Encyclopedia of Comedians. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1979. Frey, Leonard. "Film, langage et comédie chez W. C. Fields, Les Marx Brothers et Preston Sturges." Humoresques 6 (1995): 105-114. Gaines, J. M., and C. C. Herzog. "Hildy-Joyhnson and the Man-Tailored Suit: The Comedy of Inequality." Film Reader 5 (1982): 232-246. Gale, Steven. "Around the World in Eighty Ways: S. J. Perelman as Screenwriter." Studies in American Humor NS4.3 (1985): 142-160. Galestin, Paul. "The Marx Brothers: Verbal and Visual Nonsense in Their Films." Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters. 16.3 (1986): 237-48. Gehring, Wes D. American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Gehring, Wes D. “Carole Lombard: The Actress.” The Indianapolis Star Magazine, October 14, 1979, 54-55. Gehring, Wes D. “Chaplin and the Progressive Era: The Neglected Politics of a Clown Indiana Social Studies Quarterly Fall, 1981, 10-18. Gehring, Wes D. Charlie Chaplin: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. Gehring, Wes D. “December 25: Charlie Chaplin, 1889-1977,” Book of Days, 1987. Ed. C. Edward Wall. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 1986, 645-647. Gehring, Wes D. “The Electric Horseman: A `Capra’ Film for the 1980s.” Journal of Popular Film and Television Winter, 1983, 175-182. Gehring, Wes D. “Elevating Keaton to Chaplin Heights.” The Keaton Chronicle Winter, 1994, 9-10. Gehring, Wes D. Film Classics Reclassified: A Shocking Spoof of Cinema. Davenport, IA: Robin Vincent Publishing, 2001. Gehring, Wes D. "Film Comedy." Charlie Chaplin's World of Comedy. Muncie, IN: Ball State Univ Press, 1980. Gehring, Wes D. "Field of Dreams: In Search of Capra's America." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 13.1-2 (1993): 34-49. Gehring, Wes D. “Fields and Falstaff.´Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor Winter, 1985, 36-42. Gehring, Wes D. "Film Comedy." Humor in America: A Research Guide to Genres and Topics. Ed. Lawrence Mintz. NY: Greenwood, 1988, 67-90. Gehring, Wes D. “Frank Capra: In the Tradition of Will Rogers and Other Yankees.” Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, Fall, 1981, 49-58. Gehring, Wes D. Groucho and W. C. Fields: Huckster Comedians. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. Gehring, Wes D. “Groucho Lost and Found: His Other Letters.´Studies in American Humor Fall, 1986 [1990], 190-198. Gehring, Wes D., ed. Handbook of American Film Genres. (constains five chapters on comedy); Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988. Gehring, Wes D. “HERO: Pushing the Capra Envelope.” The Journal of Popular Film and Television. Sprilng, 1995, 36-43. Gehring, Wes D. “`Inside Benchley’: The Early Diaries.” Studies in American Humor 7 (1989 [ 1992]): 85-93. Gehring, Wes D. “Inspector Clouseau: In the Tradition of Harry Langdon.” Forum Autumn, 1979, 57-60. Gehring, Wes D. “John Bunny: America’s First Important Comedian.” Literature/Film Quarterly 23.2 (1995): 120-124. Gehring, Wes D. Laurel and Hardy: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990. Gehring, Wes D. “Laurel On Laurel, 1890-1990: A `New’ Interview.” Bowler Dessert Winter, 1990, 24-29. Gehring, Wes D. Leo McCarey and the Comic Anti-Hero in American Film. NY: Arno Press, 1980. Gehring, Wes D. “Leo McCarey: The Man Behind Laurel and Hardy.” Films in Review, November 1979. 543-549. Gehring, Wes D. “Love and Laughter: A Cinematic Valentine’s Day Bouquet.” USA Today Magazine, January, 2000, 64-71. Gehring, Wes D. “The Many Faces of Movie Comedy.” USA Today Magazine July, 1998, 80-89. Gehring, Wes D. The Marx Brothers: A Bio-Biobliography. New York: Greenwood, 1987. Gehring, Wes D. “The Marx of Time.” Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor Summer, 1989, 25-33. Gehring, Wes D. “Merry Christmas FROM HOLLYWOOD.” USA Today Magazine, November, 1999, 70-75. Gehring, Wes D. "Mr. B" Or Comforting Thoughts about the Bison: A Critical Biography of Robert Benchley. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. Gehring, Wes D. “Oh, Why Couldn’t It Have Been Robert?” HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Resaerch 6.3 (1993): 285-298. Gehring, Wes D. Parody as Film Genre: Never Give a Saga an Even Break. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Gehring, Wes D. Personality Comedians as Genre. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Gehring, Wes D. Populism and the Capra Legacy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Gehring, Wes D. “The Populist Films of Robert Redford.” USA Today Magazine, May, 1999, 62-65. Gehring, Wes D. Screwball Comedy: Defining a Film Genre. Muncie, IN: Ball State Univ Press, 1983. Gehring, Wes D. Screwball Comedy: A Genre of Madcap Romance. New York: Greenwood, 1986. Gehring, Wes D. "Screwball Comedy: An Overview." Journal of Popular Film and Television 113.4 (1986): 178-185. Gehring, Wes D. Seeing Red: The Skelton in Hollywood's Closet. Davenport, IA: Robin Vincent Publishing, 2001. Gehring, Wes D. W. C. Fields: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. Gehring, Wes D. “W. C. Fields: The Copyrighted Sketches.” Journal of Popular Film and Television Summer, 1986, 65-75. Gehring, Wes D. “Woody Allen and Fantasy: Play It Again, Sam.” Forum, Summer, 1987, 25-34. Gehring, Wes D. The World of Comedy: Five Takes on Funny. Davenport, IA: Robin Vincent Publishing, 2001. Gerdes, Peter. "Where Does this Hulot Guy Fit in? A Typology of Film Comedy." Australian Journal of Comedy Eds. Gerard Matte and Jessica Milner Davis. 3.1 (1997): 101-111. Girgus, Sam B. "The Moral and Psychological Dilemma of Modern Times: Love, Play, and Civilization in Chaplin's Last Silent Classic." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 16.1-2 (1997): 3-15. Glasser, Jean-Claude. "Cinéma et BD: jusqu'où Peut Aller l'Humour?" CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 200-205. Goff, Robert. "Buster Keaton and the Play of Elements." Laughing Matters: A Serious Look at Humour. Eds. John Durant and Jonathan Miller. NY: Longman, 1988, 90-108. Graham, Don. Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas. Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1984. Gravitt, G. Jack, ed. American Literary Humor and Film. Special Issue of Studies in American Humor NS4.3 (1985). Green, D. "Comedian's Dilemma--Woody Allen's Serious Comedy." Literature-Film Quarterly 19.2 (1991): 70-76. Green, D. "We're Getting a False Reality Here: Albert Brooks and the Comic Idea." Film Criticism 7.1 (1992): 26-37. Guingamp, Pierre, and Jean-Luc Denat. "La Parodie, Un Art Difficile." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 140-146. Guthrie, Lee. Woody Allen: Biography. New York, NY: Drake, 1978. Haffner, Pierre. "En Afrique, Les Cinéastes ne sont pas Tombés." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 170-174. Harrison, Leslie K., Douglas Carroll, Victoria E. Burns, Anna R. Corkill, Clara M. Harrison, Christopher Ring, and Mark Drayson. Cardiovascular and Secretary Immunoglobulin A Reactions to Humorous Exciting, and Didactic Film Presentations. New York, NY: Elsevier, 1999. Harvey, James. Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies. Hamondsworth, England: Penguin, 1974. Haskins, James. Richard Pryor: A Man and His Madness: A Biography. New York, NY: Beaufort, 1984. Hennebelle, Guy, Ed. "Le Comique a l'Ecran: Revue de Cinema et de Television." CinemAction 82.1 (1997). Henrie, Mark C. “Film, Comedy, and Christian Humanism: A First Look at Whit Stillman.” The Intercollegiate Reivew 35.2 (2000): 3-4. Hirsch, Foster. Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: Woody Allen's Comedy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. Hope, Bob. Don't Shoot, It's Only Me: Bob Hope's Comedy History of the U.S.. New York, NY: Putnam, 1990. Horton, Andrew. Comedy/Cinema/Theory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. Horton, Andrew. "Comic Triumph in George Roy Hill's Adaptation of John Irving's The World According to Garp." Studies in American Humor NS4.3 (1985): 173-182. Horton, Andrew. Laughing Out Loud: Writing the Comedy Centered Screen Play Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut Press, 1999. Hrusa, B. "Lost Art of Comedy." Film (BFFSl) 37 (1963): 25-34. Ingrao, P. "Chapliln: The Antagonism of the Comic Hero." Film Quarterly 35.1 (1981): 22-24. Ivanov, Andrea J. "Mae West Was Not a Man: Sexual Parody and Genre in the Plays and Films of Mae West." Look Who's Laughing: Gender and Comedy. Ed. Gail Finney. New York, NY: Gordon and Breach, 1994. 275-298. Jenkins, H. "Amazing Push-Me/Pull-You Text--Cognitive Processing, Narrational Play and the Comic Film." Wide Angle--A Film Quarterly of Theory, Criticism, and Practice 8.3-4 (1986): 35-44. Jenkins, H. "Don't Become Too Friendly with the Terrible Women--Unruly Wives, Female Comic Performance and So Long Letty." Camera Obscura 8.1 (1991): 13-15. Johnson, Kim "Howard." Life Before and After Monty Python: The Solo Flights of the Flying Circus. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Karassev, Leonid. "Le rire et le temps." 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