Books

Slapstick: an interdisciplinary companion

by Edwards, Peter, Weinstein, Valerie, Hennefeld, Maggie, Schroeder, Stefan, Frank, Caroline, Andree, Courtney, Babiak, Paul Michael, Brannys, Anne, Hauck, Sebastian, Hoblík, Jiří, Hron, Irina, Kling, Alexander, Prado, Ignacio M. Sánchez, Sassen, Claudia, Struwe-Rohr, Carolin, Tsai, Addie

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Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultu…

Slapstick comedy

by King, Rob, Paulus, Tom

fromAFI film readers

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Slapstick comedy & its cast of film stars has long been viewed as central to the early formal development of narrative cinema generally, & of American cinema in particular. This volume presents 14 essays exploring the enduring debates & questions surrounding slapstick's role in …

Slapstick modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop

by Solomon, William

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Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls and nyuk-nyuks percolated alongside literary modernism throughout the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive expression in postwar literature, experimental film, and popular music. W…