Slapstick Comedy (AFI Film Readers)

by RobKing (Editor), TomPaulus (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $42.27

  From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This title offers a collection of fourteen essays that presents conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture.