Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion

Ervin Malakaj, Alena E. Lyons (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 414 Seiten

2023
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-125544-6 (ISBN)

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lt;p>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.

Alena E. Lyons, Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen, Germany; Ervin Malakaj, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC/Canada.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	32 b/w and 10 col. ill.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	778 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	body politics • Humor • Pain & the Comical • Slapstick
ISBN-10	3-11-125544-1 / 3111255441
ISBN-13	978-3-11-125544-6 / 9783111255446
Zustand	Neuware