The slapstick camera : Hollywood and the comedy of self-reference / Burke Hilsabeck.

Author: Hilsabeck, Burke, 1978- author.

ImprintAlbany : SUNY Press, [2020]

Descriptionx, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Slapstick spectators: Tillie's punctured romance (1914) -- Buster Keaton's theory of film -- Redeeming vision: Charlie Chaplin -- Bodies of silence, bodies of sound: the Marx brothers -- Hollywood, television, and the case of Ernie Kovacs -- Nouvelles blagues: Jerry Lewis -- Epilogue: the apotheosis of failure: Jackass.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.

Note:Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium.

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