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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019881903321

Autore

Carroll Noël <1947->

Titolo

Comedy incarnate : Buster Keaton, physical humour and bodily coping / / Noe  l Carroll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, 2006

ISBN

9786610748938

9781280748936

1280748931

9780470765012

0470765011

9780470754931

0470754931

9781405171885

140517188X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

791.4372

Soggetti

Motion picture industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Phenomenological Background; 1 Themes of The General; 2 Style in The General; 3 Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon; Summary; Appendix: Narration in Keaton's The General; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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