De Charcot à Charlot
Subtitle: mises en scène du corps pathologique
By: Rae Beth Gordon
Series: Collection "Le spectaculaire." Série Cinéma; Collection "Le spectaculaire"
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rennes
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Rennes
Language: fre
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9782753522503
Subjects: Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.); History; Burlesque (Theater); Hysteria; Hysteria in motion pictures; Comedy films; History and criticism; Silent films
Other titles: Augustine (Motion picture : 2003); Cretinetti e l'ago.; Pop hysteric.
Work titles: Why the French love Jerry Lewis
Notes: Revised and translated version of the author's: Why the French love Jerry Lewis : from cabaret to early cinema.

Published in English in 2001, this book is the first to suggest an analogy between the popular show and hysteria in the hospital in the last third of the nineteenth century. It highlights a direct relationship between the hysterical gestures and the artists of the café-concert and burlesque cinema. This book also seeks to identify and analyze the physiological reactions of the audience, offering a new theory of reception of the show by the public.

Accompanying DVD: PAL; all regions; 4:3 aspect ratio.

Accompanying DVD includes three short films, two by Jean-Claude Monod, Augustine (2003; 43 minutes) and Pop hysteric (2011; 8 minutes), and one silent film, Cretinetti el'ago (1911; 5 minutes).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: L'inconscient corporel; title: Imitation et contagion : le magnétisme à l'hôpital et sur les plances; title: Le Café-Concert et le Corps déchainé; title: La Pantomime et le Zigzag; title: Hypnotisme, somnambulisme et le cinématographe; title: Le geste hystérique au cinématographe.