"'Something Mechanical Encrusted on the Living': Modernity, Embodiment, and Empathy in American Slapstick Film, 18951929"
This dissertation argues that slapstick films conventions, including the gag, humiliation and violence, and comic business, produce the screen figure body-object, which operates as the substrate and the cause of slapstick. Slapstick creates body-objects that are passive, inept and failing, or active...
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VANDERBILT
2011
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07222011-140243/ |