Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion (Hardcover)

Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	October 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Ervin Malakaj • Alena E. Lyons
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	423
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-057079-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Mime Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Promotions
LSN:	3-11-057079-3
Barcode:	9783110570793

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!