Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.
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The Comedy of Philosophy brings modern debates in continental philosophy to bear on the historical study of early cinematic comedy. Through the films of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, Lisa Trahair investigates early cinema's exploration of sense and nonsense by utilizing the contributions to the philosophy of comedy made by Freud and Bataille and by examining significant poststructuralist interpretations of their work. Trahair explores the shift from the excessive physical slapstick of the Mack Sennett era to the so-called structural comedy of the 1920s, and also offers a new perspective on the importance of psychoanalysis for the study of film by focusing on the implications of Freud's theory of the unconscious for our understanding of visuality.
"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 Plonowska 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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figural vision, articulated gags, cinematic comedy, cinematic gag, displacement jokes, tropic vision, comic operation, comic emerges, psychical expenditure, operational aesthetic, comic degradation, abstract negativity, restricted economy, narrative comedy, causal motivation, mechanical encrusted, sovereign operation, comedian comedy, cathectic energy, demonstrative function, cinematic metaphor, comic pleasure, comic performer, salmon mayonnaise, genteel comedy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Comedy of Philosophy, The Navigator, The Machine of Comedy, One Week, Preposterous Figurality, The Philosophy of Laughter, Steamboat Bill, Fool's Gold, City Lights, The Love Nest, The Scarecrow, The Balloonatic, Rollo Treadway, Chaplin's Tramp, The Gold Rush, The Boat, The Electric House, Sennett's Keystone, Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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