Hollywood Comedians

Name: Hollywood Comedians
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ISBN: 9780415235525

ISBN-10: 0415235529

ISBN-13: 9780415235525

Edition: 2002

Authors: Frank Krutnik

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This text examines a range of comedians and contexts from the silent era to the 1990s. Contributors address key debates on performance and genre, and discuss issues of gender and the body, ethnicity and race.

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


General Introduction



Genre, Narrative and Performance



Performance, Enuniciation and Self-reference in Hollywood Comedian Comedy




Derailing the Honeymoon Express: Comicality and Narrative Closure in Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith




Approaches to Silent Comedy



The Case of Silent Slapstic




Buster Keaton, or the Work of Comedy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction




Charlie Chaplin and the Annals of Anality




Sound Comedy, the Vaudeville Aesthetic and Ethnicity



Anarchistic Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic




The Marx Brothers and the Search for the Landsman




Comedian Comedy and Gender



She Done Him Wrong: Spectacle and Narrative




Lucille Ball and the Regime of Domiculture




Comic Theory from a Feminist Perspective: A Look at Jerry Lewis




Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby




Post-Classical Comedian Comedy



Laughing Mad: The Black Comedian's Place in American Comedy of the Post-Civil Rights Era




Low Blows? Theorizing Performance in Post-classical Comedian Comedy



Select Bibliography


Index