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Personality Comedians as Genre: Selected Players (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) by Wes D. Gehring is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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The success of clown comedy is dependent on the comic or comics who take center stage. These comics are usually identified with a specific comedic shtick, physical or visual humor, and their underdog status. This study by film scholar Wes Gehring presents a brief, historical overview of major figures in the genre, including W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, Bob Hope, and Woody Allen. The comedians discussed are drawn from four genre periods: the silent era, the depression era, the post-World War II
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wes D. Gehring
- Publisher
- Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780313261855
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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