Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping

English

ISBN: 140517188X

EAN: 9781405171885

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts/Performing Arts / Film & Video / General/

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release Date: 04/15/2008

Synopsis: In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films.

• Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists
• Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style
• Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work
• Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself

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Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - PDF

Pages: 200