Slapstick Comedy

Slapstick Comedy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781135966232
ISBN-13 : 1135966230
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Book Synopsis Slapstick Comedy by : Tom Paulus

Download or read book Slapstick Comedy written by Tom Paulus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture.


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