Slapstick Comedy (AFI Film Readers) by Tom Paulus & Rob King (eds) - 2010-04

Routledge, 2010. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Cover edges are shelf worn. Cover page is stained and bumped, but legibility is not impacted. Pages are unmarked.

New. From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by prominent film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture. The contributors discuss a broad range of topics including the contested theatrical or cinematic origins of slapstick; the comic spectacle of crazy technology and trick stunts; the filmmakers who shaped the style of early slapstick; and comedy's implications for theories of film form and spectatorship. This volume is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins and continued importance of a film genre at the heart of American cinema from its earliest days to today.

Routledge, 2010. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 275 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This title offers a collection of fourteen essays that presents conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This title offers a collection of fourteen essays tha

Routledge, 2010. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 275 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches.