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1. Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader

   Edited by Frank Krutnik

   Series: In Focus: Routledge Film Readers

   Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen, comedians and the contexts within...

   Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
2. In a Lonely Street

   Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

   By Frank Krutnik

   Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a generic framework and draws on recent historical and theoretical research to examine both the...

   Published August 7th 1991 by Routledge
3. Popular Film and Television Comedy

   By Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale

   Series: Popular Fictions Series

   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. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to...

   Published May 30th 1990 by Routledge