Hi Gloria: I highly recommend the chapter on Jerry Lewis in Steve Shaviro's _Cinematic Body_ (1995?; Minnesota). Also take a look at Kathleen Rowe's _The Unruly Woman_ and, if I remember correctly, there is a piece on Woody Allen in either _Unspeakable Images_ or Karnick's and Jenkins' edited collection _Classical Hollywood Comedy_. Best wishes, Jennifer Jennifer M. Bean Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies Dept. of Comparative Literature Box 354338 University of Washington-Seattle Seattle, WA 98195-4338 Fax: 206.685.2017 ---------- >From: gloria monti <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: a readings query >Date: Wed, Jan 3, 2001, 5:11 PM > > Dear Colleagues: > I am teaching a class on American comedy (1960-2000) this >Winter quarter and I am quite frustrated by the lack of academic >essays that discuss the films I am showing. I found a number of >reviews, but it doesn't really do the trick. I taught the first half >of the course in the Fall and I had no problems compiling a list of >very meaningful readings. > Below is the list of films on the syllabus. Any suggestions >about readings that I might have overlooked? Please, respond to me >privately. Thank you! > > Gloria Monti > >The Apartment (1960), Billy Wilder >The Nutty Professor (1963), Jerry Lewis >Dumb and Dumber (1994), Peter Farrelly >Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb >(1964), Stanley Kubrick >Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Robert Townsend >Blazing Saddles (1974), Mel Brooks >Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Jay Roach >Harold and Maude (1972), Hal Ashby >Slacker (1991), Richard Linklater >Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen >Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Nora Ephron >Fast Times at Ridgemont High(1982), Amy Heckerling >American Pie (1999), Paul Weitz >After Hours(1985), Martin Scorsese >Fargo (1996), Joel Coen >Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), Joe Layton >Down By Law (1986), Jim Jarmusch >Hanging Up (2000), Diane Keaton > >______________________________ > >gloria monti, ph.d. >lecturer >program in film studies >223 humanities instructional building >university of california, irvine >irvine, CA 92697-2435 >phone: 949-824-6576 >e-mail: [log in to unmask] > >1/3/1961: The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba -- >three days before I was born. > >---- >For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: >http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]