'You don’t have to be crazy to work, but it helps' : work in film comedies of the 1930s
(2013)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2013). 'You don’t have to be crazy to work, but it helps' : work in film comedies of the 1930s. In E. Mazierska (Ed.), Work in Cinema : labor and the human condition (191-207). New York: Macmillan
It is curious how relatively seldom work appears in the foreground of film comedy texts. Work is the background, the normal and quotidian against which the comic can emerge. Certainly there is humour to be found in work activities and environments, b... Read More about 'You don’t have to be crazy to work, but it helps' : work in film comedies of the 1930s.