Gerald Mast (May 13, 1940 – September 1, 1988) was an author, film historian, and member of the University of Chicago faculty. He was a contributor to...

to save them. Regarding the structure of Chaplin's films, the scholar Gerald Mast sees them as consisting of sketches tied together by the same theme and...

Glory" — just as J. S. Bach did at the end of every musical composition. Gerald Mast writes: "Like the gravedigger in Hamlet, the Squire [...] treats death...

cheesy improvement on the traditional straight man." Along similar lines, Gerald Mast, in his book The Comic Mind: Comedy and Movies, noted that Zeppo's comedic...

perspective were all "great communicators". According to film historians Gerald Mast and Bruce Kawin, Lumet's "sensitivity to actors and to the rhythms of...

and add new scenes for Paulette Dubost and Mila Parély. Film historian Gerald Mast found Gregor's performance to be "as haunting and bewitching as a plastic...

Mast was an author, film historian and chairman of the English department at the University of Chicago NYTimes obituary for Gerald Mast Mast, Gerald....

Hardy – a substitution of form for essence, covering for reality", wrote Gerald Mast in The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies. Their "blather", which includes...

Contrarily, some, including film historian Gerald Mast, argue that Hawks preferred the 133-minute version. Mast points out that this is told from an objective...

Half-mast or half-staff (American English) refers to a flag flying below the summit of a ship mast, a pole on land, or a pole on a building. In many countries...

Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace (1973) Viking Press Gerald Mast, The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies (1973, 2nd ed. 1979) University...

love." The song is a parody of the clichés of contemporary love songs; Gerald Mast in Can't Help Singin' describes the "treacly tune" and Ira Gershwin's...

Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There...

Naval Architects to investigate 19th-century clippers and propose a three-mast square rig for the project. The "DynaRig" concept, a 1960s invention by German...

character (Emile) to "linger in the moment" of immediate infatuation. Gerald Mast's history of the American musical notes that the song is a climactic moment...

Baroda. Hugh Hunt, 86, American set decorator (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar). Gerald Mast, 48, American author and film historian, AIDS. Robert Menaker, 84, American...

1918-1947. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 49. ISBN 9781476616308. Gerald Mast (1979). The comic mind: comedy and the movies. University of Chicago...

Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved October 20, 2010. Mast, Gerald (2007). A Short History of the Movies: 10th Edition. London: Longman...

On December 26, 2006, Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California at 6:45 p.m. local time (02:45...

Royal Standard would not fly at half mast ("The king is dead, long live the king!"). However, it flew at half-mast for several hours from the death of...

complex release of inflammatory mediators, including histamine from cutaneous mast cells, results in fluid leakage from superficial blood vessels. Hives may...

Laurel and Hardy. Other authors have examined the film's gender issues. Gerald Mast wrote that the comedic aspects overlaid a conflict between masculinity...

after University of Chicago alumnus, Gerald Ratner. The architect of this suspension structure that is supported by masts, cables and counterweights was César...

various personas, including a male impersonator. She used the alias "Jane Mast" early in her career. Her trademark walk was said to have been inspired or...

292-308. Reprinted in Film Theory and Criticism, 2nd and 3rd editions, ed. Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen, Oxford University Press, 1979 and 1985. "The Role...

Gerald Edward Connolly (born March 30, 1950) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 11th congressional district, first...

Oxford, 1998. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen), fourth edition. New York: Oxford, 1992. Great Film...

national flag being flown at half-mast. Where the national flag is flown at half-mast no other flag should be half-masted. The flag of the Ivory Coast has...

time", and the "Hercules of the winged dessert". American film historian Gerald Mast said the custard pies were really made of blackberries, which showed...

Gerald Lee Baliles (July 8, 1940 – October 29, 2019) was a Virginia lawyer and Democratic politician whose career spanned great social and technological...