An edition of Slapstick comedy
(2010)
Slapstick comedy
by Tom Paulus and Rob King
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Introduction :
restoring slapstick to the historiography of American film -- Tom Paulus and Rob King
Originality and adaptation.
The good thieves :
on the origins of situation comedy in the British music hall -- Bryony Dixon ;
D.W. Griffith shapes slapstick -- Barry Salt ;
Genre parody and comedic burlesque :
Keystone's meta-cinematic satires -- Simon Joyce ;
Both sides of the camera :
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's evolution at Keystone -- Joanna E. Rapf ;
Mud pies and tears :
little Mary's funny side -- Anke Brouwers
Mechanics and modernity.
Mack Sennett vs. Henry Ford -- Eileen Bowser ;
"Uproarious inventions" :
the Keystone Film Company, modernity, and the art of the motor -- Rob King ;
Mechanisms of laughter :
the devices of slapstick -- Tom Gunning ;
Slapstick skyscrapers :
an architecture of attractions -- Steven Jacobs ;
California slapstick revisited -- Charles Wolfe
Bodies and performance.
Dancing of fire and water :
Charlot and L'esprit nouveau -- Amy Sargeant ;
Splashes of fun and beauty :
Mack Sennett's bathing beauties -- Hilde D'Haeyere ;
Back to the "slap" :
slapstick's hyperbolic gesture and the rhetoric of violence -- Muriel Andrin ;
The art of imitation :
the originality of Charlie Chaplin and other moving-image myths -- Jennifer M. Bean.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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