Hitchcock and Humor: Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films. Gehring, Wes D., McFarland and Company, 2019

Authors

James Altman, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

6-30-2020

Publication Title

The Journal of American Culture

Volume

43

Issue

2

First page number:

166

Last page number:

167

Abstract

In Hitchcock and Humor: Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films , distinguished film scholar Wes D. Gehring seeks to fill in what he sees as a gaping hole in Hitchcock criticism. That is the need for an in‐depth analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's love of many types of humor, and how, and why, he felt them essential to his filmmaking. Gehring sees humor as central to Hitchcock's artistic vision, not as an afterthought, as he contends most other scholars do. Gehring emphasizes that his mission is not to denigrate any critic, or critical approach. Instead, he seeks to bring attention to Hitchcock's use of humor, so as to let all lovers of Hitchcock's art decide for themselves how important humor is to experiencing a Hitchcock film.

Disciplines

American Film Studies

File Format

pdf

File Size

64 KB

Language

English

Repository Citation

Altman, J. (2020). Hitchcock and Humor: Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films. Gehring, Wes D., McFarland and Company, 2019. The Journal of American Culture, 43(2), 166-167.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13172