TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Rob
AU  - Paulus,Tom
TI  - Slapstick comedy
T2  - AFI film readers
SN  - 9780415801782 (hbk.)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Comedy films
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Barry Salt; Genre parody and comedic burlesque; Keystone's meta-cinematic satires; Simon Joyce; Both sides of the camera; Roscoe'Fatty' Arbuckle's evolution at Keystone; Joanna E. Rapf; Mud pies and tears; little Mary's funny side; Anke Brouwers --; Mechanics and modernity; Mack Sennett vs. Henry Ford; Eileen Bowser; 'Uproarious inventions'; the Keystone Film Company, modernity, and the art of the motor; Rob King; Mechanisms of laughter; the devices of slapstick; Tom Gunning; Slapstick skyscrapers; an architecture of attractions; Steven Jacobs; California slapstick revisited; Charles Wolfe --; 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; Hilde D'Haeyere; Back to the'slap'; slapstick's hyperbolic gesture and the rhetoric of violence; Muriel Andrin; The art of imitation; the originality of Charlie Chaplin and other moving-image myths; Jennifer M. Bean
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