Comedy/Cinema/Theory ; edited by Andrew Horton
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley:
University of California Press,
1991
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Andrew Horton
- Notes on the sight gag / Noel Carroll
- Penis-size jokes and their relation to Hollywoodʹs unconscious / Peter Lehman
- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: comedy and matricide / Lucy Fischer
- In search of radical metacinema / Stephen Mamber
- Mock realism: the comedy of futility in Eastern Europe / Charles Eidsvik
- Charles Chaplin and the annals of anality / William Paul
- The light side of genius: Hitchockʹs Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the screwball tradition / Dana Polan
- Cartoon and narrative in the films of Frank Tashlin and Preston Sturges / Brian Henderson
- The three Stooges and the (anti-)narrative of violence: de(con)structive comedy / Peter Brunette
- Paralysis in motion: Jerry Lewisʹs life as a man / Scott Bukatman
- Woody Allenʹs Zelig: an American Jewish parody / Ruth Perlmutter
- The mouse who wanted to f
- k a cow: cinematic carnival laugher in Dusan Makavejevʹs films / Andrew Horton