Title: The Body in Hollywood Slapstick
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.
Subjects: Body, Human, in motion pictures, Comedy films, History and criticism, Human body in motion pictures
Places: United States