Chaplin's 'The Tramp' and the Rhetoric of Comedy

Leland Poague joined the Iowa State university English department in 1978. Professor Poague received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and then taught at several colleges in New York before coming to Iowa . He has served as consultant for the American Cinema for Rochester, New York's PBS station. He has published numerous articles and he is the author of three books on American film directors, with his latest, Wilder and McCarey, soon to be out.
Part of the National Affairs Series: Humor in America.