Category: Blog Post 1 (due Monday Jan 25 by 5 PM)
Readings:
• Tom Gunning, “Crazy Machines in the Garden of Forking Paths,” Classical Hollywood Comedy, ed. Karnick and Jenkins (Los Angeles: AFI/Routledge, 1995), 87-105, 360-363.
• Donald Crafton, “Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy” and Tom Gunning, “Response to ‘Pie and Chase,’” Classical Hollywood Comedy, ed. Karnick and Jenkins (Los Angeles: AFI/Routledge, 1995), 106-122, 363-365.
• Henry Jenkins, “YouTube and the Vaudeville Aesthetic,” HenryJenkins.org (20 November 2006): henryjenkins.org/2006/11/youtube_and_the_vaudeville_ aes.html.
The Anthology Television Series as Vaudeville
Establishing a Narrative Beyond an Interplay Between Disruption and Containment
The Vaudeville aesthetic and the Compilation video
Response to Gunning’s ideas of Gags and Narrative and it’s subversion in It’s Spagett! – Ethan Bowden
There’s Something About Gunning
Gus Johnson, Gunning and subversion of the rascal/victim dynamic – Rebecca Jonas
Craig Thornton – If You Are Going To Tie Me Up At Least Use A Mischief Gag
Awareness of the ridiculous: Subversion of Gunning’s Pranks
