Slapstick comedy / edited by Tom Paulus and Rob King.

Other author Paulus, Tom.
Other author King, Rob, 1975-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionxii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesAFI film readers
AFI film readers. ^A253893
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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