224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen, comedians and the contexts within which they worked have not always received their due in scholarly discussions of cinema culture.... Read more
General Introduction PART ONE: GENRE, NARRATIVE AND PERFORMANCE 1 Steve Seidman, Performance, Enunciation and Self-reference in Hollywood Comedian Comedy 2 Peter Krämer, Derailing the Honeymoon Express: Comicality and Narrative Closure in Buster Keaton’s The Blacksmith PART TWO: APPROACHES TO SILENT COMEDY 3 Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik, The Case of Silent Slapstick 4 Tom Gunning, Buster Keaton, or the Work of Comedy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 5 William Paul, Charlie Chaplin and the Annals of Anality PART THREE: SOUND COMEDY, THE VAUDEVILLE AESTHETIC AND ETHNICITY 6 Henry Jenkins III, Anarchistic Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic 7 Mark Winokur, The Marx Brothers and the Search for the Landsman PART FOUR: COMEDIAN COMEDY AND GENDER 8 Kathleen Rowe, She Done Him Wrong: Spectacle and Narrative 9 Patricia Mellencamp, Lucille Ball and the Regime of Domiculture 10 Joanna E. Rapf, Comic Theory from a Feminist Perspective: A Look at Jerry Lewis 11 Steven Cohan, Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby PART FIVE: POST-CLASSICAL COMEDIAN COMEDY 12 Bambi L. Haggins, Laughing Mad: The Black Comedian’s Place in American Comedy of the Post-Civil Rights Era 13 Philip Drake, Low Blows? Theorizing Performance in Post-classical Comedian Comedy.
Biography
Frank Krutnik is Professor in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Inventing Jerry Lewis (Smithsonian University Press 2000), In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity (Routledge 1991) and, with Steve Neale, Popular Film and Television Comedy (Routledge 1990).
