Slapstick Comedy (Paperback)

Introduction: Restoring Slapstick to the Historiography of American Film Tom Paulus and Rob King Part One: Originality and Adaptation 1. The Good Thieves: On the Origins of Situation Comedy in the British Music Hall Bryony Dixon 2. D. W. Griffith Shapes Slapstick Barry Salt 3. Genre Parody and Comedic Burlesque: Keystone’s Meta-Cinematic Satires Simon Joyce 4. Both Sides of the Camera: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle’s Evolution at Keystone Joanna E. Rapf 5. Mud Pies and Tears: Little Mary’s Funny Side Anke Brouwers Part Two: Mechanics and Modernity 6. Mack Sennett vs. Henry Ford Eileen Bowser 7. "Uproarious Inventions": The Keystone Film Company, Modernity, and the Art of the Motor Rob King 8. Mechanisms of Laughter: The Devices of Slapstick Tom Gunning 9. Slapstick Skyscrapers: An Architecture of Attractions Steven Jacobs 10. California Slapstick Revisited Charles Wolfe Part Three: Bodies and Performance 11. Dancing on Fire and Water: Charlot and L’Esprit Nouveau Amy Sargeant 12. Splashes of Fun and Beauty: Mack Sennett’s Bathing Beauties Hilde D’Haeyere 13. Back to the "Slap": Slapstick’s Hyperbolic Gesture and the Rhetoric of Violence Muriel Andrin 14. The Art of Imitation: The Originality of Charlie Chaplin and Other Moving-Image Myths Jennifer M. Bean