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Slapstick Comedy /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | AFI film readers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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: bac.