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Michael Kantor

Make 'Em Laugh

The Funny Business of America

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From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, Make 'Em Laugh illuminates who we are as a nation by exploring what makes us laugh, and why. Authors Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor draw on countless sources to chronicle the past century of American comedy and the geniuses who created and performed it-melding biography, American history, and a lotta laughs into an exuberant, important book. Each of the six chapters focuses a different style or archetype of comedy, from the slapstick pratfalls of Buster Keaton and Lucille Ball through the wisegu… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Maslon, Laurence
  • ISBN: 978-0-446-55575-3
  • EAN: 9780446555753
  • Produktnummer: 22800877
  • Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 300 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 16'203 KB

Über den Autor


Michael Kantor is a writer, director, and producer whose work includes Quincy Jones: In the Pocket for American Masters, Cornerstone for HBO, and The West with Ken Burns. Prior to his work in television, Kantor was a freelance theater director and writer, published in Newsday, American Theater, and Interview. He is president of Ghost Light Films and Almo Inc., companies dedicated to bringing the arts to television.Laurence Maslon is an associate arts professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. With Michael Kantor, he coauthored two episodes of the Broadway series and served as its senior adviser. He also wrote the American Masters biography of Richard Rodgers and edited the Library of America edition of George S. Kaufman's comedies. He lives in New York City and on the North Fork of Long Island.

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