The object of comedy : philosophies and performances /: philosophies and performances. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jamila M.H. Mascat, Gregor Moder.
• Editors: Mascat, Jamila M. H; Moder, Gregor, 1979-
• Contents: A Head or a Cannonball? An Introduction to the Object of Comedy – Jamila M. H. Mascat and Gregor ModerSection 1 – Comic PhilosophyChapter 1. The uncanny and the comic. Freud avec Lubitsch – Mladen DolarChapter 2. How They Fought – Sandra LaugierChapter 3. Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness. On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship – Jamila M. H. MascatChapter 4. The Aborted Object of Comedy & the Birth of the Subject. Socrates and Aristophanes' Alliance – Rachel Aumiller Section 2 – Comic PsychoanalysisChapter 5. The Three Moments of Comedy – Robert PfallerChapter 6. From Objects of Desire to Objects of Comedy in Chaplin's Modern Times – Alfie BownChapter 7. Where Does Dirt Come From? – Alenka Zupančič Section 3 – Screening ComedyChapter 8. Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of it All – Benjamin NoysChapter 9. Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton's The General – Lisa TrahairChapter 10. Bad Cops – Todd McGowan Section 4 – Performing ComedyChapter 11. Richard Pryor, the Conedian – Alexi KukuljevicChapter 12. Comedy as Performance – Gregor ModerChapter 13. After Death Comes Humour. On the Poetics of Alexander Vvedensky – Keti ChukhrovChapter 14. Asking for It. An exchange – Cassandra Seltman and Vanessa Place Chapter 15. Of Organic Comedies. Interview with Romeo Castellucci – Jamila M.H. Mascat Notes on ContributorsAbstractsIndex.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.917; Comedy -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030277420
• Related ISBNs: 9783030277413
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