Slapstick Comedy

Slapstick Comedy
ISBN-10
0415801788
ISBN-13
9780415801782
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
275
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Author
Rob King

Description

Slapstick comedy and its cast of film stars' Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops, Fatty Arbuckle, and Buster Keaton among them' has long been viewed as central to the early formal development of narrative cinema generally, and of American cinema in particular. This new volume in the AFI Film Readers series presents 14 essays exploring the enduring debates and questions surrounding slapstick' s role in the origins of cinema, as well as its place in movies today. A star-studded group of international film scholars discuss a broad range of...

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