Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A Head or a Cannonball? An Introduction to the Object of Comedy - Jamila M. H. Mascat and Gregor ModerSection 1 - Comic PhilosophyChapter 1. The uncanny and the comic. Freud avec Lubitsch - Mladen DolarChapter 2. How They Fought - Sandra LaugierChapter 3. Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness. On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship - Jamila M. H. MascatChapter 4. The Aborted Object of Comedy & the Birth of the Subject. Socrates and Aristophanes' Alliance - Rachel Aumiller
Section 2 - Comic PsychoanalysisChapter 5. The Three Moments of Comedy - Robert PfallerChapter 6. From Objects of Desire to Objects of Comedy in Chaplin's Modern Times - Alfie BownChapter 7. Where Does Dirt Come From? - Alenka Zupančič
Section 3 - Screening ComedyChapter 8. Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of it All - Benjamin NoysChapter 9. Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton's The General - Lisa TrahairChapter 10. Bad Cops - Todd McGowan
Section 4 - Performing ComedyChapter 11. Richard Pryor, the Conedian - Alexi KukuljevicChapter 12. Comedy as Performance - Gregor ModerChapter 13. After Death Comes Humour. On the Poetics of Alexander Vvedensky - Keti ChukhrovChapter 14. Asking for It. An exchange - Cassandra Seltman and Vanessa Place Chapter 15. Of Organic Comedies. Interview with Romeo Castellucci - Jamila M.H. Mascat
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