Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Problematics of Film Comedy
6. Notes on the Sight Gag 25
7. Penis-size Jokes and Their Relation to Hollywood's Unconscious 43
8. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Comedy and Matricide 60
9. In Search of Radical Metacinema 79
10. Mock Realism: The Comedy of Futility in Eastern Europe 91
11. Comic Occasions
12. Charles Chaplin and the Annals of Anality 109
13. The Light Side of Genius: Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the Screwball Tradition 131
14. Cartoon and Narrative in the Films of Frank Tashlin and Preston Sturges 153
15. The Three Stooges and the (Anti-)Narrative of Violence: De(con)structive Comedy 174
16. Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man 188
17. Woody Allen's Zelig: An American Jewish Parody 206
18. The Mouse Who Wanted to F—k a Cow: Cinematic Carnival Laughter in Dusan Makavejev's Films 222
19. Selected Bibliography and Works Cited 241
20. Contributors 245
21. Index 247