Hollywood comedians the film reader Performance enunciation and self reference in Hollywood comedian comedy Steve Seidman Derailing the honeymoon express : comicality and narrative closure in Buster Keatons The blacksmith Peter Krämer The case of silent slapstick Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik Buster Keaton or the work of comedy in the age of mechanical reproduction Tom Gunning Charlie Chaplin and the annals of anality William Paul Anarchistic comedy and the vaudeville aesthetic Henry Jenkins III The Marx brothers and the search for the landsman Mark Winokur She done him wrong : spectacle and narrative Kathleen Rowe Lucille Ball and the regime of domiculture Patricia Mellencamp Comic theory from a feminist perspective : a look at Jerry Lewis Joanna E. Rapf Queering the deal : on the road with Hope and Crosby Steven Cohan Laughing mad : the Black comedians place in American comedy of the post civil rights era Bambi L. Haggins Low blows Theorizing performance in post classical comedian comedy Philip Drake