The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick
Author:   Lisa Trahair
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9780791472477


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   04 October 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lisa Trahair
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780791472477


ISBN 10:   0791472477
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   04 October 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Comedy of Philosophy: Hegel, Bataille, and Derrida 2. Restricted and General Economy: Narrative, Gag and Slapstick in One Week 3. The Machine of Comedy: Gunning, Deleuze, and Buster Keaton 4. Fool's Gold: Metamorphoses in Sherlock Jr. 5. Jokes and Their Relation to... 6. The Comic: Degradation and Refinement in 1920s Cinematic Slapstick 7. From Words to Images (Gagging) 8. Figural Vision: Freud, Lyotard, and City Lights 9. Preposterous Figurality: Comic Cinema and Bad Metaphor Notes Bibliography Index

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This is a timely and important book. It offers a nuanced yet rigorous negotiation between the philosophical discourse on laughter, psychoanalytic theory of jokes and the comic, and the contribution of silent comedies to our understanding of the comic. Trahair is equally at home in all three of these fields and their specific modes of interpretation. - Ewa PAonowska Ziarek, coeditor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis


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Lisa Trahair is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales.

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