British Comedy Cinema Book

1. British comedy cinema: sex, class and very naughty boys, Laraine Porter and I.Q. Hunter 2. British silent comedy: from slapstick to satire, Laraine Porter 3. No limit: British class and comedy of the 1930s, Lawrence Napper 4. ‘Northern films for Northern people’ – the story of the Mancunian Film Company, C.P. Lee 5. Ealing Comedies 1947–1957: ‘The bizarre British, faced with yet another extraordinary situation’, Tim O’Sullivan 6. ‘From adolescence into maturity’: the film comedy of the Boulting Brothers, Alan Burton 7. Margaret Rutherford and comic performance, Sarah Street 8. A short history of the Carry On films, James Chapman 9. Gird your armour on: the genteel subversion of the St. Trinian’s films, Andrew Roberts 10. Norman Wisdom: Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump, Richard Dacre 11. From telly laughs to belly laughs: the rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off, Peter Waymark 12. From window cleaner to potato man: confessions of a working class stereotype, I.Q. Hunter 13. Making Ben-Hur look like an epic: Monty Python at the movies, Justin Smith 14. Travels in Curtisland: Richard Curtis and British comedy cinema, James Leggott 15. ‘The sight of 40 year old genitalia too disgusting, is it?: wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation 1900 – present, Paul Wells