body in Hollywood slapstick
By: Alex Clayton.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786430635
Subjects: Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in motion pictures
Description: "Many Hollywood slapstick films can be understood as comic meditations on the place and nature of the human body. Focusing on the works of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy, among others, this book examines ways that the body represents or interacts with the mind, setting, voice and machines in slapstick films"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.