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Popular Film and Television Comedy

Popular Film and Television Comedy

Frank Krutnik

Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance.
Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader

Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader

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Frank Krutnik. First published 2003 by Routledge 1 1 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the ... Library of Congress Ca1aluging in Publication Data Hollywood comedians, the tiim reader/edited by Frank Krutnik p,  ...
From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee: Lust/Caution

From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee: Lust/Caution

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(Frank Krutnik, 1991, p. 23) Krutnik cannot therefore regard filmnoirasacquiring a fictitious state of being,suchas “a genre, ora generic subsystem or periodic transformation of the crime film, or a film movement, or 'a specific period of film history.
Next Train's Gone!: Will Hay: An Alternative View of British ...

Next Train's Gone!: Will Hay: An Alternative View of British ...

Amanda J Field

Frank Krutnik, to deal with the “indecorum of the speech, behaviour, actions and manners of those of a lower social rank” (Neale and Krutnik 1990:p86). Nowhere was this 'indecorum' more noticeable than in the films of Will Hay. Hay was one ...
In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

Frank Krutnik

The core of this book however concerns the complex representationof masculinity in the noir tough' thriller, and where and how gender interlocks with questions of genre.
In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

Frank Krutnik

The core of this book however concerns the complex representationof masculinity in the noir tough' thriller, and where and how gender interlocks with questions of genre.
The Body in Hollywood Slapstick

The Body in Hollywood Slapstick

Alex Clayton

Frank Krutnik discusses Bakhtin in relation to Jerry Lewis, and claims that “ Lewis's extremist performance ... flaunt[s] the body as a site of boundlessness and process. When severed from the cosmic function it served in medieval carnival ...
Comedy of Philosophy, The: Sense and Nonsense in Early ...

Comedy of Philosophy, The: Sense and Nonsense in Early ...

Lisa Trahair

Frank Krutnik, “The Clown-Prints of Comedy,” Screen 25.4–5 (1984); Peter Kramer, “Derailing the Honeymoon Express: Comicality and Narrative Closure in Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith,” The Velvet Light Trap 23 (1989). 9. Dana Polan  ...
"Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era

"Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era

Frank Krutnik

2 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 20–21. 30. See Malvin Wald, “ Afterword,” in The Naked City: A Screenplay by Malvin Wald and Albert Maltz, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University ...
The Frank Book:

The Frank Book:

Jim Woodring

The Frank Book also features an introduction by one of Frank’s biggest fans (himself a Frank, or almost): Francis Ford Coppola.
Totally Frank: The Autobiography of Frank Lampard

Totally Frank: The Autobiography of Frank Lampard

Frank Lampard

Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard charts his life story from childhood to young West Ham apprentice to multi-millionaire world footballing celebrity and lynchpin of the national team.
Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Frank Beamer

After 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on ...
Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Frank Beamer

After 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on ...
Buxton, Hollis, and Limington

Buxton, Hollis, and Limington

Frank H. Sleeper

Frank H. Sleeper. IMAGES of America Buxton, Hollis, AND LlMINGTON Frank H. Sleeper ARCADIA Copyright © 1997 by Frank H. Sleeper ISBN 0-7385-3886-8 Published.
Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Ewan Maccoll

Frank Purslow, The Constant Lovers (London, 1972). Frank Purslow, Marrowbones (London, 1965). Frank Purslow, The Wanton Seed (London, 1968). Frank Purslow, The Foggy Dew (London, 1974). Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany ...
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye 3rd Edition:

Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye 3rd Edition:

Frank Miller

With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller's masterpiece! * Over a million Sin City books in print! * New cover by Frank ...
Frank Sherwin: independent and unrepentant

Frank Sherwin: independent and unrepentant

Frank Sherwin

A celebration of the life of Irish politician and supporter of Fianna Fail Frank Sherwin Senior, in his own words, from his witnessing of the Easter Rising through to the early 1970s.
Totally Frank: My Autobiography

Totally Frank: My Autobiography

Frank Lampard

Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard charts his life story from childhood to young West Ham apprentice to multi-millionaire world footballing celebrity and lynchpin of the national team.
Superheroes: Beans-N-Frank

Superheroes: Beans-N-Frank

Mark Davis

Superheroes, their first picture book, is a trip into Big Frank's imagination about how their songs are helping their friends do well in school. If you want an adventure, come on and ride with Beans-N-Frank.
Frank: Fighting Back

Frank: Fighting Back

Frank Bruno

At the age of eleven Frank Bruno was sent to reform school. At thirty-three he was crowned heavyweight champion of the world. At forty-one he was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Now, he's back - with his real story...
Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Role of Traditional ...

Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Role of Traditional ...

Kevin Nute

The most detailed accounts of Wright's print-collecting activities are to be found inJulia Meech-Pekarik's “Frank Lloyd Wright ... For more on this topic, see Julia Meech-Pekarik, “Frank Lloyd Wright's Other Passion,“ The Nature of Frank Lloyd  ...
South Western Reporter. Second Series: Cases Argued and ...

South Western Reporter. Second Series: Cases Argued and ...

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172 S.W.2d 804 that Mrs. Carrie Tyler Frank was not included in the class "next of kin", and hence was not a beneficiary under the will of Joseph Frank, Sr.; that the one half interest under said will bequeathed to Lou Frank should be divided ...
The Baccarat Battle Book

The Baccarat Battle Book

Frank Scoblete

For the first time ever, Frank shows players how to 'push the house' to reduce the casino's commission on the Bank bet from five percent to four percent. Frank shows how manipulating the pace of the game can bring more comps for less risk.
Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television

Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television

Matthew Bernstein

A third witness, tellingly, is a black employee at the factory (Carl Gordon) who claims he never saw women in Frank's office or witnessed Jim Conley stand watch for Frank: “Most of the time he'd be asleep, drunk, out back.” When Rosser asks ...
The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection

The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection

Frank Harris

Now largely out of print and inacces­sible, and overshadowed since his death in 1931 by the Frank Harris legend and by his reputation as the author of the notorious My Life and Loves, the stories nevertheless bear witness to the ...
Hellstrom's Hive

Hellstrom's Hive

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's classic SF tale of an insect menace threatening the USA First published in 1973, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction ...
Polk's Morgantown, W. Va., city directory

Polk's Morgantown, W. Va., city directory

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... Co h Main nr Rogers av (M) Mangano Emily J cik Montgomery Ward & Co r Frank Mangano (S) — Frank (Anna) steelwkr h Listravia av nr Lincova (S) — John J hlpr Cowan Bkg Co r Frank Mangano (S) I MORGANTOWN MONUMENT CO.
Geheimakte Frank Mayer: Kriminalroman

Geheimakte Frank Mayer: Kriminalroman

Laura Laberge

Deshalb er weiß auch, dass Mister Frank Mayer hat Bruder. Und Frank Mayer hatte erzählt von Mister De Haas. Mister Frank Mayer hatte kurz vor seiner Festnahme gesprochen, und vielleicht Sie ihm könnten helfen, vielleicht. Doch leider ist ...
Joe Frank Harris: Personal Reflections on a Public Life

Joe Frank Harris: Personal Reflections on a Public Life

Joe Frank Harris

Serving two terms from 1983 until 1991, Joe Frank Harris compiled a strong record of accomplishment and honesty in government.

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