British comedy cinema

Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Ealing Comedies 1947-1957: "The bizarre British, faced with yet another extraordinary situation" / Tim O'Sullivan -- From adolescence into maturity: the film comedy of the Boulting Brothers / Alan Burton -- Margaret Rutherford and comic performance / Sarah Street -- A short history of the carry on films / James Chapman -- Gird your armour on: the genteel subversion of the St. Trinian's films / Andrew Roberts -- Norman Wisdom: Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump / Richard Dacre -- From telly laughs to belly laughs: the rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off / Peter Waymark -- From window cleaner to potato man: confessions of a working class stereotype / I.Q. …”


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