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Author:
Hilsabeck, Burke, 1978- author.
Title:
The slapstick camera : Hollywood and the comedy of self-reference / Burke Hilsabeck.
Publisher:
State University of New York Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
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--Philosophy.
Motion pictures--Production and direction.
Television comedies.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
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.
Series:
SUNY series, horizons of cinema
ISBN:
1438477309
9781438477305
1438477317
9781438477312
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1104218920
LCCN:
2019011272
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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