| Groucho and W. C. Fields: Huckster Comedians Contributor(s): Gehring, Wes D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934110957 ISBN-13: 9781934110959 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Back in print. A wonderful tribute to Groucho and Fields and the art of flimflam comedy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Humor - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| Series: Studies in Popular Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields, American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilarious smudges on the genre, comedy was anything but. Here in a captivating book comparing and contrasting these two premier American comics is the history of how flimflam came to prevail as a major comic form. These two comic geniuses excelled at a new brand of shtick, antiheroic humor that killed off the tame demeanor of their many predecessors in show business. By derailing the comedy of innocence, Marx and Fields brought film comedy to its Golden Age. |