The Slapstick Camera: Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference - Couverture souple

Livre 46 sur 71: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Hilsabeck, Burke

 
9781438477305: The Slapstick Camera: Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference
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ISBN 10 : 1438477309 ISBN 13 : 9781438477305
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2021

Synopsis

Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium.

Slapstick film comedy may be grounded in idiocy and failure, but the genre is far more sophisticated than it initially appears. In this book, Burke Hilsabeck suggests that slapstick is often animated by a philosophical impulse to understand the cinema. He looks closely at movies and gags that represent the conditions and conventions of cinema production and demonstrates that film comedians display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium-from Buster Keaton's encounter with the film screen in Sherlock Jr. (1924) to Harpo Marx's lip-sync turn with a phonograph in Monkey Business (1931) to Jerry Lewis's film-on-film performance in The Errand Boy (1961). The Slapstick Camera follows the observation of philosopher Stanley Cavell that self-reference is one way in which "film exists in a state of philosophy." By moving historically across the studio era, the book looks at a series of comedies that play with the changing technologies and economic practices behind film production and describes how comedians offered their own understanding of the nature of film and filmmaking. Hilsabeck locates the hidden intricacies of Hollywood cinema in a place where one might least expect them-the clowns, idiots, and scoundrels of slapstick comedy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Burke Hilsabeck is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438477309
ISBN 13 
9781438477305
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
218
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  1438477317 ISBN 13 :  9781438477312
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2020
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