Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion

Author:   Ervin Malakaj ,  Alena E. Lyons
Publisher:   De Gruyter
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9783111255446


Pages:   423
Publication Date:   08 May 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.

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Author:   Ervin Malakaj ,  Alena E. Lyons
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Weight:   0.778kg
ISBN:  

9783111255446


ISBN 10:   3111255441
Pages:   423
Publication Date:   08 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Alena E. Lyons, Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen, Germany; Ervin Malakaj, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC/Canada.

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