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Introduction

From the book Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion

  • Ervin Malakaj and Alena E. Lyons
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110571981-015
© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
From the book
Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion
Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion

Chapters in this book (30)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slapstick
Part I: History of Slapstick
Introduction
The Descent of Slapstick
Ideology, Performance, and Ironic Distance in Musical Slapstick
Sinking and Falling Bodies: The Beginnings of Literary Slapstick in the Pre-Modern Era
Part II: Instruments of Slapstick
Introduction
The Broken Mirror: From Commedia All’Improvviso to Slapstick Comedy
Harold Lloyd and the Reappearing Hand: Disability, Embodiment, and Slapstick
Wardrobe Malfunction and Slapstick Humiliation in The Lonely Island’s Popstar:
Gazing at Slapstick with Luiza Folegatti’s Drag King Series O Deleite da Mulher Barbada
Part III: Narrative Structures of Slapstick
Introduction
Telling and Showing: Slapstick in Stephan Schütze’s Comic Theory and Heinrich von Kleist’s Der zerbrochne Krug
A Constraint-Based Approach to the Slapstick Seriality in Larry Semon Comedies, 1918–1920
The Anonymized Randomness of Vicco von B.: On Chaos and Order in Loriot’s Agfa Advertisements
Part IV: Bodies of Slapstick
Introduction
The Tragicomic Body: On the Relation between Tragicomedies and Slapstick
‘Or Words to That Effect’: The Antimetaphysics of Slapstick
Gender and Jewish Difference in Early German Slapstick
Part V: Politics of Slapstick
Introduction
Slapstick Comediennes in Silent Cinema: Women’s Laughter and the Feminist Politics of Gender in Motion
Lubitsch’s Queer Slapstick Aesthetics
The Slapstick of Greater Mexico: The Poetics and Politics of Eugenio Derbez
Interpersonal and Social Sensibility in Slapstick from the Perspective of Religious History
Part VI: Sticking to the Slap: The Contact Points of Slapstick
Closing Remarks: Creating Openings
Each One, Who Falls – A Conversation
Contributors
Index
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