Tabla de Contenidos: “…Performance, enunciation and self-reference in Hollywood comedian comedy / Steve Seidman -- Derailing the honeymoon express : comicality and narrative closure in Buster Keaton's The blacksmith / Peter Krämer -- The case of silent slapstick / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik -- Buster Keaton, or the work of comedy in the age of mechanical reproduction / Tom Gunning -- Charlie Chaplin and the annals of anality / William Paul -- Anarchistic comedy and the vaudeville aesthetic / Henry Jenkins III -- The Marx brothers and the search for the landsman / Mark Winokur -- She done him wrong : spectacle and narrative / Kathleen Rowe -- Lucille Ball and the regime of domiculture / Patricia Mellencamp -- Comic theory from a feminist perspective : a look at Jerry Lewis / Joanna E. …”
Sumario

“…Along the way, Michael Snediker sets off an impressive pyrotechnic display of literary allusion, drawing on the superstars of the Western canon (think: Virgil, Racine, Proust, James, Wharton, Tennessee Williams) and of popular culture (Lucille Ball, John Travolta, Alex Trebek).Buyer beware: In these pages you will not find advice on how to feng shui your duplex or tame a Cuisinart run amok. …”