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Slapstick An Interdisciplinary Companion
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Author : Ervin Malakaj
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-10-25
Slapstick An Interdisciplinary Companion written by Ervin Malakaj and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-25 with Performing Arts categories.
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 cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.
Slapstick And Comic Performance
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Author : L. Peacock
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-07-03
Slapstick And Comic Performance written by L. Peacock and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Performing Arts categories.
Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the audience laugh. It draws examples from theatre, television and film on both sides of the Atlantic.
Slapstick Comedy
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Author : Tom Paulus
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-06-09
Slapstick Comedy written by Tom Paulus and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-09 with Social Science categories.
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. 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.
The Slapstick Camera
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Author : Burke Hilsabeck
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2020-02-01
The Slapstick Camera written by Burke Hilsabeck and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-01 with Humor categories.
Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium. Slapstick film comedy may be grounded in idiocy and failure, but the genre is far more sophisticated than it initially appears. In this book, Burke Hilsabeck suggests that slapstick is often animated by a philosophical impulse to understand the cinema. He looks closely at movies and gags that represent the conditions and conventions of cinema production and demonstrates that film comedians display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium—from Buster Keaton’s encounter with the film screen in Sherlock Jr. (1924) to Harpo Marx’s lip-sync turn with a phonograph in Monkey Business (1931) to Jerry Lewis’s film-on-film performance in The Errand Boy (1961). The Slapstick Camera follows the observation of philosopher Stanley Cavell that self-reference is one way in which “film exists in a state of philosophy.” By moving historically across the studio era, the book looks at a series of comedies that play with the changing technologies and economic practices behind film production and describes how comedians offered their own understanding of the nature of film and filmmaking. Hilsabeck locates the hidden intricacies of Hollywood cinema in a place where one might least expect them—the clowns, idiots, and scoundrels of slapstick comedy. “From its analysis of the vaudevillian Victorian origins to early Hollywood expressions, and from defining classical performances by the likes of Keaton to recent postmodern recapitulations, Hilsabeck’s theoretically rigorous and wide-ranging study masterfully weaves a path through the historical, technical, and philosophical art of slapstick comedy. A must for scholars working in this field.” — Daniel Varndell, author ofHollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox
My Wonderful World Of Slapstick
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Author : Buster Keaton
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06
My Wonderful World Of Slapstick written by Buster Keaton and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Over half century ago the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children complained to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, that Joe Keaton, a vaudeville actor, was brutally mistreating his five-year old son. At each afternoon and evening performance the child, billed as “The Human Mop”, was slammed on the floor, hurled into the wings, and sometimes banged into bass drums. Unable to find a bruise or scratch on the lad, Mayor Van Wyck refused to ban the act. The “Human Mop” bounced on to worldwide fame as Buster Keaton, one of this century’s greatest comedians. In this intimate autobiography Buster Keaton tells his whole personal and professional story, beginning with his colourful and exciting childhood as the undentable tot in the “Three Keatons” whose proudest boast was having the rowdiest, roughest act in vaudeville. Buster has played with all the great ones, from George M. Cohen and Bojangles Robinson and Al Jolson to Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan and Red Skelton, during his sixty years as a star in vaudeville, silent and talking pictures, night clubs and television. Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle got him into the movies and taught him how to throw a custard pie. Buster could not even keep slapstick out of his eleven months as a draftee in our World War I army. He came out to help create the Golden Age of Comedy with his friends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Arbuckle, Mack Sennett and the Keystone Cops. Marital troubles and alcoholism once got Buster down, but could not keep him down. MY WONDERFUL WORLD OF SLAPSTICK was written with the collaboration of Charles Samuels, co-author of His Eye Is On the Sparrow, Ethel Waters’ best-selling autobiography. Buster Keaton’s Life Story will enchant and thrill all those who enjoy looking past the glitter and the grease paint into a magnificent performer’s mind and heart.
Slapstick
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Author : Tony Staveacre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Slapstick written by Tony Staveacre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Clowns categories.
Traces the history of slapstick, or visual comedy, from its beginnings in primitive rituals to the present-day forms on television and in films and includes biographies of many talented comics in the genre
The Body In Hollywood Slapstick
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Author : Alex Clayton
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-12-24
The Body In Hollywood Slapstick written by Alex Clayton and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-24 with Performing Arts categories.
Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, 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. Also covered are female performances in slapstick and brutality and suffering in the slapstick tradition.
Slapstick
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Author : Roger McGough
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-08-07
Slapstick written by Roger McGough and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
If Philosophy is the Why? And Science is the How? Then Poetry is the Wow! In this stunning, brand-new volume, you'll discover poems about poems, poems about life, poems about kangaroos and chameleons and caterpillars (though not in the same verse) and many more. This touching and thought-provoking collection will make you laugh, cry, or simply say 'Wow!'
Hokum
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Author : Rob King
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-04-07
Hokum written by Rob King and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-07 with History categories.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hokum! is the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition, author Rob King explores the slapstick short’s Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture. Each chapter is grounded in case studies of comedians and comic teams, including the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Robert Benchley. The book also examines how the past legacy of silent-era slapstick was subsequently reimagined as part of a nostalgic mythology of Hollywood’s youth.
Funny Kid Slapstick Funny Kid 5
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Author : Matt Stanton
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2019-07-01
Funny Kid Slapstick Funny Kid 5 written by Matt Stanton and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Suit up with the Redhill Peewees and laugh your head off! The Funny Kid series is super popular for a reason! Every kid wants to laugh, but Max is the boy who can make it happen. Only now he's been forced to join the local ice-hockey team, and there's nothing funny about slipping over and getting a frozen bum. Or is there? Max is the funny kid ... and this time he's skating on thin ice! Epic fails, a wrestling rhinoceros called Roxanne, fake news, locker rooms filled with popcorn and the dreaded return of Mr Armstrong are just some of the things in store for Max and his friends in this Funny Kid adventure. FUNNY KID is the mega-bestselling series from author-illustrator Matt Stanton that has everyone laughing! PRAISE FOR FUNNY KID 'my favourite thing in the book was everything' -- Elliott 'better than Wimpy Kid, Big Nate and Tom Gates combined' -- Ally 'humour is injected into every page' -- Children's Book Council of Australia's Reading Time 'absolutely hilarious' -- Tim Harris, author of the Exploding Endings series