Slapstick comedy

by Paulus, Tom

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Title Statements

Full title :Slapstick comedy / ed. by Tom Paulus ...

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:XII, 275 Seiten : : Illustrationen.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415801782, 0415801788, 9780415801799, 0415801796, 0203876768, 9780203876763
oclc:ocn699104357
LC Classification:PN1995.9.C55
Dewey Decimal:791.43617

Introduction :restoring slapstick to the historiography of American film / Tom Paulus and Rob King -- Originality and adaptation. The good thieves :on the origins of situation comedy in the British music hall / Bryony Dixon ;D.W. Griffith shapes slapstick -- Mechanics and modernity. Mack Sennett vs. Henry Ford / Eileen Bowser ;"Uproarious inventions" :the Keystone Film Company, modernity, and the art of the motor -- Bodies and performance. Dancing of fire and water :Charlot and L'esprit nouveau / Amy Sargeant ;Splashes of fun and beauty :Mack Sennett's bathing beauties.

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Aufsatzsammlung Comedy films Comedy films -- History and criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc Filmkomödie Filmkomödie -- Stummfilm -- USA Films comiques -- Histoire et critique Geschichte Stummfilm Stummfilm -- Filmkomödie -- USA USA