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

By Noel Carroll

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
ISBN
1405188324, 9781405188326
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
960 kB (982539 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
192\188
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theoristsTakes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s styleWeighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s workProvides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself

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