Slapstick comedy / edited by Tom Paulus and Rob King.
| Other author | Paulus, Tom. |
| Other author | King, Rob, 1975- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, |
| Description | xii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | AFI 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011378471 |
| ISBN | 9780415801782 |
| ISBN | 0415801788 |
| ISBN | 9780415801799 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415801796 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780203876763 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 0203876768 (ebk.) |
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