Slapstick Comediennes in Silent Cinema: Women’s Laughter and the Feminist Politics of Gender in Motion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slapstick 1
5. Part I: History of Slapstick
6. Introduction 11
7. The Descent of Slapstick 15
8. Ideology, Performance, and Ironic Distance in Musical Slapstick 37
9. Sinking and Falling Bodies: The Beginnings of Literary Slapstick in the Pre-Modern Era 53
10. Part II: Instruments of Slapstick
11. Introduction 73
12. The Broken Mirror: From Commedia All’Improvviso to Slapstick Comedy 79
13. Harold Lloyd and the Reappearing Hand: Disability, Embodiment, and Slapstick 101
14. Wardrobe Malfunction and Slapstick Humiliation in The Lonely Island’s Popstar: 121
15. Gazing at Slapstick with Luiza Folegatti’s Drag King Series O Deleite da Mulher Barbada 139
16. Part III: Narrative Structures of Slapstick
17. Introduction 161
18. Telling and Showing: Slapstick in Stephan Schütze’s Comic Theory and Heinrich von Kleist’s Der zerbrochne Krug 165
19. A Constraint-Based Approach to the Slapstick Seriality in Larry Semon Comedies, 1918–1920 187
20. The Anonymized Randomness of Vicco von B.: On Chaos and Order in Loriot’s Agfa Advertisements 215
21. Part IV: Bodies of Slapstick
22. Introduction 245
23. The Tragicomic Body: On the Relation between Tragicomedies and Slapstick 249
24. ‘Or Words to That Effect’: The Antimetaphysics of Slapstick 269
25. Gender and Jewish Difference in Early German Slapstick 293
26. Part V: Politics of Slapstick
27. Introduction 311
28. Slapstick Comediennes in Silent Cinema: Women’s Laughter and the Feminist Politics of Gender in Motion 315
29. Lubitsch’s Queer Slapstick Aesthetics 333
30. The Slapstick of Greater Mexico: The Poetics and Politics of Eugenio Derbez 351
31. Interpersonal and Social Sensibility in Slapstick from the Perspective of Religious History 367
32. Part VI: Sticking to the Slap: The Contact Points of Slapstick
33. Closing Remarks: Creating Openings 389
34. Each One, Who Falls – A Conversation 391
35. Contributors 407
36. Index 411