Comedy Incarnate - Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping

Informationen zum Autor Noel Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His recent books include The Philosophy of Motion Pictures (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and On Criticism (2008). He is co-editor, with Jinhee Choi, of Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005). Klappentext Comedy Incarnate explores the intricacies of Buster Keaton's unique visual style to discover what provokes laughter in his timeless films, paying special attention to The General . Keaton's precise body comedy, coupled with his unconventional directorial decisions, suggests a new way of analyzing the film in terms of its visual elements as opposed to its narrative. Written by one of America's foremost film theorists, this in-depth examination of the comedy of the steam, steel, and railroad era will provide a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself. Zusammenfassung In Comedy Incarnate ! Noel Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton's unique visual style! to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton's films. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Phenomenological Background. 1. Themes in The General. 2. Style in The General. 3. Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon. Summary. Appendix: Narration in Keaton's The General. Index

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• Authors: Carroll, N Carroll, No L. Carroll, No?l Carroll, Noel Carroll, Noël Carroll, Noel (University of Wisconsin) Carroll
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2008
• EAN: 9781405188326
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8832-6
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; HUMOR / General, PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, Humour