Comedy of Philosophy

Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick

AvLisa Trahair

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Del i serien SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

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Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-06-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791472484

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

"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 PÂonowska Ziarek, coeditor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 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 MetaphorNotesBibliographyIndex