Slapstick comedy
By: edited by Tom Paulus and Rob King
Series: AFI film readers; AFI film readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780415801782; 9780415801799; 9780203876763
Subjects: History and criticism; Comedy films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: restoring slapstick to the historiography of American film  -- Tom Paulus and Rob King; title: Originality and adaptation.; title: The good thieves :; title: on the origins of situation comedy in the British music hall  -- Bryony Dixon ;; title: D.W. Griffith shapes slapstick  -- Barry Salt ;; title: Genre parody and comedic burlesque :; title: Keystone's meta-cinematic satires  -- Simon Joyce ;; title: Both sides of the camera :; title: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's evolution at Keystone  -- Joanna E. Rapf ;; title: Mud pies and tears :; title: little Mary's funny side  -- Anke Brouwers; title: Mechanics and modernity.; title: Mack Sennett vs. Henry Ford  -- Eileen Bowser ;; title: "Uproarious inventions" :; title: the Keystone Film Company, modernity, and the art of the motor  -- Rob King ;; title: Mechanisms of laughter :; title: the devices of slapstick  -- Tom Gunning ;; title: Slapstick skyscrapers :; title: an architecture of attractions  -- Steven Jacobs ;; title: California slapstick revisited  -- Charles Wolfe; title: Bodies and performance.; title: Dancing of fire and water :; title: Charlot and L'esprit nouveau  -- Amy Sargeant ;; title: Splashes of fun and beauty :; title: Mack Sennett's bathing beauties  -- Hilde D'Haeyere ;; title: Back to the "slap" :; title: slapstick's hyperbolic gesture and the rhetoric of violence  -- Muriel Andrin ;; title: The art of imitation :; title: the originality of Charlie Chaplin and other moving-image myths -- Jennifer M. Bean.