Make ‘Em Laugh: A History of Movie Comedy from Charlie Chaplin to Mel Brooks (Virtual Event)

Lisa Ryan Adults

Date:
Thursday, 01/23/2025
Time: 7:00 pm

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Since the beginning of motion pictures, making audiences laugh has been one of film industry’s chief box office attractions. Skilled acrobatic comedians like Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin were enormously popular in the silent era, as were their more verbally dexterous talking picture successors the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields. Comedy exploded once movies could talk, from screwball to romance to social satire to musicals, and in recent decades dozens of new variations have appeared from over-the-top dark comedy to gross-out teen comedy. This program will look at the major highlights of screen comedy over the last 125 yea

About the presenter:

Brian Rose is a professor emeritus at Fordham University, where he taught for 38 years in the Department of Communication and Media Studies. He’s written several books on television history and cultural programming, and conducted more than a hundred Q&A’s with leading directors, actors, and writers for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Directors Guild of America.

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01/23/2025 7:00 PM 01/23/2025 7:00 PM America/Detroit Make ‘Em Laugh: A History of Movie Comedy from Charlie Chaplin to Mel Brooks (Virtual Event)

  Since the beginning of motion pictures, making audiences laugh has been one of film industry’s chief box office attractions. Skilled acrobatic comedians like Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin were enormously popular in the silent era, as were their more verbally dexterous talking picture successors the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields. Comedy exploded […]

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