The Body In Hollywood Slapstick
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| Author | : Alex Clayton |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2014-12-24 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476607214 |
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. Also covered are female performances in slapstick and brutality and suffering in the slapstick tradition.
| Author | : Burke Hilsabeck |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Comedy films |
| ISBN | : 9781438477305 |
| Author | : Alan S. Dale |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Comedy films |
| ISBN | : 9781452904986 |
| Author | : Barbara Plotz |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2020-02-20 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 135011457X |
Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''war against the obesity epidemic''. In Fat on Film, Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness during this timeframe, specifically in contemporary Hollywood cinema, with an emphasis on the intersection of gender, race and fatness. The analysis is based on around 50 films released since 2000 and includes examples such as Transformers (2007), Precious (2009), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Paul Blart (2009) and Pitch Perfect (2012).Plotz maps the common cinematic tropes of fatness and also shows how commonplace notions of fatness that are part of the current ''obesity epidemic'' discourse are reflected in these tropes. In this original study, Plotz brings critical attention to the politics of fat representation, a topic that has so far received little attention within film and cinema studies.
| Author | : L. Peacock |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2014-07-03 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137438975 |
Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the audience laugh. It draws examples from theatre, television and film on both sides of the Atlantic.
| Author | : Victoria Sturtevant |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2009-05-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0252034287 |
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler often played ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, her body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Sturtevant interprets the meanings of Dressler's body by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie.
| Author | : Tom Paulus |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2010-06-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1135966230 |
From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture.
| Author | : Ervin Malakaj |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2021-10-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3110570971 |
Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.
| Author | : Annette Kuhn |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2020-04-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0192568043 |
A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam. Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally. Indices of films and filmmakers mentioned in the text are included for easy access to relevant entries. The dictionary also has 13 feature articles on popular topics and terms, revised and informative bibliographies for most entries, and more than 100 web links to supplement the text.
| Author | : David Madden |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
