TY - BOOK ID - 352436 TI - Slapstick comedy AU - Paulus, Tom AU - King, Rob PY - 2010 SN - 9780415801782 9780415801799 9780203876763 0415801788 0415801796 9781135966188 9781135966225 9781135966232 PB - London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Film KW - Comedy films KW - History and criticism. KW - #SBIB:309H1326 KW - Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: genres en richtingen KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:352436 AB - Introduction : restoring slapstick to the historiography of American film / Tom Paulus and Rob King -##Originality and adaptation. The good thieves : on the origins of situation comedy in the British music hall / Bryony Dixon ; D.W. Griffith shapes slapstick / Barry Salt ; Genre parody and comedic burlesque : Keystone's meta-cinematic satires / Simon Joyce ; Both sides of the camera : Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's evolution at Keystone / Joanna E. Rapf ; Mud pies and tears : little Mary's funny side / Anke Brouwers -##Mechanics and modernity. Mack Sennett vs. Henry Ford / Eileen Bowser ; "Uproarious inventions" : the Keystone Film Company, modernity, and the art of the motor / Rob King ; Mechanisms of laughter : the devices of slapstick / Tom Gunning ; Slapstick skyscrapers : an architecture of attractions / Steven Jacobs ; California slapstick revisited / Charles Wolfe -##Bodies and performance. Dancing of fire and water : Charlot and L'esprit nouveau / Amy Sargeant ; Splashes of fun and beauty : Mack Sennett's bathing beauties / Hilde D'Haeyere ; Back to the "slap" : slapstick's hyperbolic gesture and the rhetoric of violence / Muriel Andrin ; The art of imitation : the originality of Charlie Chaplin and other moving-image myths / Jennifer M. Bean. ER -