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Slapstick Comedy

Slapstick Comedy
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Slapstick Comedy
From Chaplin’s tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by prominent film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy’s place in film history and American culture. The contributors discuss a broad range of topics including the contested theatrical or cinematic origins of slapstick; the comic spectacle of crazy technology and trick stunts; the filmmakers who shaped the style of early slapstick; and comedy’s implications for theories of film form and spectatorship. _x000D_ _x000D_ This volume is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins and continued importance of a film genre at the heart of American cinema from its earliest days to today.

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  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Place: UK
  • Publication Year: 2010-05-24
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Edition: 1
  • Series: AFI Film Readers
  • Seller: BestBookBuddies  
  • Category: RAPS
  • Stock: 9999
  • Model: Stock
  • Weight: 0.51kg
  • SKU: Stock
  • ISBN: 9780415801782
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