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The slapstick camera : Hollywood and the comedy of self-reference / Burke Hilsabeck.

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Main Author: Hilsabeck, Burke, 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Series:SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Subjects:
Comedy films > United States > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > United States.
Television comedies > United States > History and criticism.
Comedy films.
Motion pictures > Production and direction.
Television comedies.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The comedy of self-reference
  • Slapstick spectators: Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
  • Buster Keaton's theory of film
  • Redeeming vision: Charlie Chaplin
  • Bodies of silence, bodies of sound: the Marx Brothers
  • Hollywood, television, and the case of Ernie Kovacs
  • Nouvelle Blagues: Jerry Lewis
  • Epilogue: The apotheosis of failure: Jackass.

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