Classical Hollywood comedy / edited by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Golden eras and blind spots / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- A spanner in the works? / Frank Krutnik -- Comedy, melodrama, and gender / Kathleen Rowe -- Funny stories / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins -- Crazy machines in the garden of forking paths : mischief gags and the origins of American film comedy / Tom Gunning -- Pie and chase : gag, spectacle and narrative in slapstick comedy / Donald Crafton -- Responses to "pie and chase" / Tom Gunning -- Commitment and reaffirmation in Hollywood romantic comedy / Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- Acting funny / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- The Keystone Film Company / Doug Riblet -- The making of a comic star : Buster Keaton and The saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer -- Goin' to town and beyond : Mae West, film censorship and the comedy of unmarriage / Ramona Curry -- The laughing stock of the city : male dread, performance anxiety and Unfaithfully yours / Henry Jenkins -- Comedy and the social world / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins -- Divorce, DeMille, and the comedy of remarriage / Charles Musser -- Romantic love and friendship : the redefinition of gender relations in screwball comedy / Tina Olsin Lent -- Queerness, comedy, and The women / Alex Doty.