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| veröffentlicht: | New York Routledge 2010 Online-Ausg.. 2010 |
| Teil von: |
AFI film readers series
AFI Film Readers Ser. |
| Medientyp: | Buch, E-Book |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (xii, 275 p); ill |
| ISBN: |
0415801796
0203876768 1282595474 0415801788 9781135966232 9781282595477 9780415801799 9780203876763 9780415801782 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Teil von: |
AFI film readers series
AFI Film Readers Ser. |
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| Print version: | Slapstick Comedy |
| Kollektion: | Verbunddaten SWB |
From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture |
| Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Restoring slapstick to the historiography of american film; Part One: Originality and adaptation; One: The good thieves: on the origins of situation comedy in the british music hall; Two: D. W. Griffith shapes slapstick; Three: Genre parody and comedic burlesque: keystone's meta-cinematic satires; Four: Both sides of the camera: roscoe "fatty" arbuckle's evolution at keystone; Five: Mud pies and tears: little mary's funny side; Part Two: Mechanics and modernity; Six: Mack sennett vs. henry ford Seven: "Uproarious inventions": the keystone film company, modernity, and the art of the motorEight: Mechanisms of laughter: the devices of slapstick; Nine: Slapstick skyscrapers: an architecture of attractions; Ten: California slapstick revisited; Part Three: Bodies and performance; Eleven: Dancing on fire and water: charlot and l'esprit nouveau; Twelve: Splashes of fun and beauty: mack sennett's bathing beauties; Thirteen: back to the "slap": slapstick's hyperbolic gesture and the rhetoric of violence Fourteen: The art of imitation: the originality of charlie chaplin and other moving-image mythsContributors; Index |