The Comedy of Philosophy

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Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick

Lisa Trahair

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State University of New York Press
05 June 2008

Theatre: technical & background skills

Series: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

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

By: Lisa Trahair
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780791472484
ISBN 10: 0791472485
Series: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 05 June 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Metaphor Notes Bibliography Index

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

Reviews for The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick

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