Download or read book Film Comedy and the American Dream written by Zach Sands and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Pursuit of Happiness -- Don't Try This at Home -- What's So Funny? -- The Good Life -- Analyzing the Dream -- Inside Jokes -- The Punchline -- 2 White Picket Fences (1946-1962) -- Family Values -- Joe versus Harvey -- Happily Ever After -- These Kids Today -- 3 Wake Up! (1963-1979) -- The Times They Are A-Changin' -- Free Enterprise -- This Is Not Your Parents' Dream -- There's a New Sheriff in Town -- Rags-to-Riches-to-Rags-to-Lower-Middle-Class -- 4 Class Clowns/Corporate Culture (1980-1996) -- Straight-to-Video -- Patriarchy Is No Malarkey -- "Live from New York, It's the Eddie Murphy Show!"--Grow Up Already -- 5 The Last Laugh (1997-2016) -- The Dream Is Dead, Long Live the Dream! -- Men Will Be Boys -- The Virtues of Being a Slacker -- It's the End of the World as We Know It ... And I Feel Fine -- Index