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The slapstick camera : Hollywood and the comedy of self-reference / Burke Hilsabeck.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.C55 H55 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilsabeck, Burke, 1978- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comedy films--United States--History and criticism.
- Comedy films.
- Television comedies.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction.
- United States.
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States.
- Television comedies--United States--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438477312
- 1438477317
- 9781438477305
- 1438477309
- OCLC:
- 1104218920
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