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Comedic Tenor, Comic Vehicle: Humor in American Film Comedy
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Contents
Cover painting by Lisa Jaeckle
Prologue: The Comedy-Humor Quandary
PART I: THE COMEDY-HUMOR SYMBIOSIS
1. Addressing the Woes of Comedy 2. The High Explosives of Humor 3. A Quadrilateral for Humor of the Mind
PART II: SIX DRAMATIC HUMOR PERSONALITIES
4. The Music Man: Think “The Minuet in G” 5. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Let’s Go Get ‘Em 6. My Big Fat Greek Wedding: We’re All Fruit 7. The Blues Brothers: On a Mission from God 8. Father of the Bride: A Long Line of Over-reactors
PART III: A HUMOROUS INTERLUDE
10. Humor-of-the-Mind Analytics: Some Empirical Revelations
PART IV: FOUR CRITICAL CAVEATS
11. A Mighty Wind: Getting the Right Genre 12. Forrest Gump: Finding the Dominant Humor Form 13. Rain Man: The Recent Rapid Development of Comedy 14. Grumpy Old Men, On Golden Pond, and Driving Miss Daisy: Senior Comedy and Comedic Innovation in Rapidly Changing Times
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