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Description

Slapstick comedy and its cast of film stars--Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops, Fatty Arbuckle, and Buster Keaton among them--has long been viewed as central to the early formal development of narrative cinema generally, and of American cinema in particular. This new volume in the AFI Film Readers series presents 14 essays exploring the enduring debates and questions surrounding slapstick's role in the origins of cinema, as well as its place in movies today. A star-studded group of international film scholars discuss a broad range of topics including the contested theatrical or cinematic origins of slapstick, the links between comic spectacle and modernity, slapstick in a global context, and comedy's implications for theories of film form and spectatorship.

Author Biography:

TOM PAULUS is Assistant Professor in Cinema and Theater Studies at the University of Antwerp and the organizer of "(Another) Slapstick Symposium." ROB KING is Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies and History at the University of Toronto and the author of The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (2009).
Release date NZ
April 19th, 2010
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributors
  • Edited by Rob King
  • Edited by Tom Paulus
Illustrations
30 Halftones, black and white
Pages
288
Dimensions
152x229x15
ISBN-13
9780415801799
Product ID
3664972

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