Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion

Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 425
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783110570977
ISBN-13 : 3110570971
Rating : 4/5 (971 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion by : Ervin Malakaj

Download or read book Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion written by Ervin Malakaj and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: An Interdisciplinary Companion Related Books

Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion
Language: en
Pages: 425
Authors: Ervin Malakaj
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-25 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and
SLAPSTICK DIVAS
Language: en
Pages: 644
Authors: Steve Massa
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07 - Publisher: BearManor Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Illustrated with 440 rare movie scene shots, formal portraits, candid behind the scenes photos, film frame enlargements, trade magazine advertisements, lobby ca
The Slapstick Camera
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Burke Hilsabeck
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium. Slapstick film comedy may be grounded in idiocy
Slapstick Divas
Language: en
Pages: 644
Authors: Steve Massa
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Funny girls, those comediennes from the silent movies, knew shtick from slapstick. Mabel Normand, Marie Dressler, Bebe Daniels, Dorothy Gish, Constance Talmadge
Camera Man
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Dana Stevens
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-28 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

They were calling it the Twentieth Century -- "She is a little animal, surely" -- "He's my son, and I'll break his neck any way I want to" -- "The locomotive of