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Comedy and Perception
The Comic Visualised, or Laughing at Shallow Hal
The Farrelly brothers prove that beauty is truly “in the eye of the beholder”
Sight Gags and Satire in the Soviet Thaw: Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures
In the hit Soviet comedy of 1965, seemingly innocuous slapstick carries a pointed political subtext
The Narrative-Machine: Buster Keaton’s Cinematic Comedy, Deleuze’s Recursion Function and the Operational Aesthetic
To incorporate his chain-reaction gags into a longer narrative, Keaton invented a distinctive form of “comic epic”
Daze of the Rabblement: Early Film Comedy and Some Modernists
How the 1920s experiments of René Clair, Eisenstein and others look back to the marvels and gags of early cinema
Where Can The Others Meet? Gender, Race and Film Comedy
On zombies, racism, subjectivity, and the insult as an expression of love