The Object of Comedy : Philosophies and Performances / / edited by Jamila M. H. Mascat, Gregor Moder

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 809.2523; 809.917
• Soggetto topico: Theater - History; Performing arts; Theater; Philosophy; Contemporary Theatre and Performance; Theatre and Performance Arts
• Persona (resp. second.): MascatJamila M. H; ModerGregor
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Section 1 - Comic Philosophy -- Chapter 1. The uncanny and the comic. Freud avec Lubitsch - Mladen Dolar -- Chapter 2. How They Fought - Sandra Laugier -- Chapter 3. Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness. On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship - Jamila M. H. Mascat -- Chapter 4. The Aborted Object of Comedy & the Birth of the Subject. Socrates and Aristophanes' Alliance - Rachel Aumiller -- Section 2 - Comic Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 5. The Three Moments of Comedy - Robert Pfaller -- Chapter 6. From Objects of Desire to Objects of Comedy in Chaplin's Modern Times - Alfie Bown -- Chapter 7. Where Does Dirt Come From? - Alenka Zupančič -- Section 3 - Screening Comedy -- Chapter 8. Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of it All - Benjamin Noys -- Chapter 9. Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton's The General - Lisa Trahair -- Chapter 10. Bad Cops - Todd McGowan -- Section 4 - Performing Comedy -- Chapter 11. Richard Pryor, the Conedian - Alexi Kukuljevic -- Chapter 12. Comedy as Performance - Gregor Moder -- Chapter 13. After Death Comes Humour. On the Poetics of Alexander Vvedensky - Keti Chukhrov -- Chapter 14. Asking for It. An exchange - Cassandra Seltman and Vanessa Place -- Chapter 15. Of Organic Comedies. Interview with Romeo Castellucci - Jamila M.H. Mascat.
• Sommario/riassunto: What is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its objectives - both its deliberate goals and its unintended side effects. In researching the object of comedy, the contributions gathered here encounter comedy as a philosophical object: instead of approaching comedy as a genre, the book engages with it as a language, a medium, an artifice, a weapon, a puzzle or a trouble, a vocation and a repetition. Thus philosophy meets comedy at the intersection of various fields (e.g. psychoanalysis, film studies, cultural studies, and performance studies) -regions that comical practices and theories in fact already traverse.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Object of Comedy
• ISBN: 9783030277420; 3030277429
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910483501503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Performance Philosophy, . 2057-7176