| Description |
x, 373 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Tati -- Extinguished salon -- Tony Hancock -- Renoir's flophouse -- Fellini himself -- Beckett -- Ionesco and Feydeau -- Prince Hal's boon friend -- The golden girl -- Woody Allen -- Buster Keaton -- A good night -- Eroica -- Shaw -- Pirandello -- Congreve -- Brecht and company -- Etiquette for cataclysms -- A last drop of the hard stuff -- Summer Judy Holliday -- Beatrice Lillie, Elaine May -- This unpopular century -- Cackle in hell -- Godard's folly of soldiers -- In the thick of Europe -- Polish exile -- The chaos of cool -- Political fables from Poland -- Pinter -- The cleared deck -- After man -- In praise of cowardice -- Under skin -- Czech wave -- A report on the party -- Dream of an outrun man -- Langdon -- Chaplin on the set -- A countess from Hong Kong on screen -- Funny in need of help -- Harold Lloyd -- The vaudeville infant -- $9-million-worth of scrap-yard comedy -- Norman Wisdom -- Demolishing comedy -- The trouble with dither -- Telling it like it isn't -- Nether villainy -- The silents' code -- A comic master -- The funniest schoolmaster -- Feydeau -- When farce boils over -- Power-cut laughter -- Birth-pill farce -- Feydeau, move over -- Leading back to Renoir -- Bedbound -- The divan comedy -- Four sharp men -- Beatles in their own right -- A pox on dying -- A fairy tale of New York -- In the best bedrooms -- A movie, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and what was the other thing? -- Back to the trees -- Gogol -- Anouilh -- Bosses and their judges -- The outclassed husband -- Could-haves -- Coward revived -- Bergman as a comedian of manners -- The bungling detective -- Underling spies -- Unemployable Maigret -- Snub by computer -- Feeling in the wrong is wrong -- To W.C. Fields, dyspeptic mumbler, who invented his own way out -- Billy Wilder's thin ice -- The most dangerous ground -- Mukel Swink -- And we'll be back after this message -- The English joke -- Carrying-on -- Bad to worse -- A nation of farce-drinkers -- The lure of William the unwashable -- Ophuls restored -- Renoir: le meneur de jeu -- Renoir: games without umpires -- Shakespeare in Italy -- Hamlet the husband -- Czech at home -- Czech in America -- 8 1/2 -- Lighting up the east end -- Beatrix Potter -- Bergman |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Simultaneously published: London : Secker and Warburg, 1973 |
| Subject |
Performing arts -- Reviews.
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| LC no. |
72079000 |
| ISBN |
067074073X |
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