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Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, many Hollywood slapstick films can be understood as comic meditations on the place and nature of the human body. Focusing on the works of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy, among others, this book examines ways that the body represents or interacts with the mind, setting, voice and machines in slapstick films. It also covers female performances in slapstick and brutality and suffering in the slapstick tradition.

The Body in Hollywood Slapstick

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Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, many Hollywood slapstick films can be understood as comic meditations on the place... Read more

    Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
    Publication Date: 30/07/2007
    ISBN13: 9780786430635, 978-0786430635
    ISBN10: 078643063X

    Number of Pages: 237

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    Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, many Hollywood slapstick films can be understood as comic meditations on the place and nature of the human body. Focusing on the works of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy, among others, this book examines ways that the body represents or interacts with the mind, setting, voice and machines in slapstick films. It also covers female performances in slapstick and brutality and suffering in the slapstick tradition.

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