Slapstick Comedy (AFI Film Readers)

by RobKing (Editor), TomPaulus (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $172.04

  From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture.