Week 2 Slapstick and Machines, Bergson and Tati
Required Reading:
Henri Bergson, “Chapter 1,” Laughter, trans. Brereton & Rothwell (London: MacMillan, 1911), 1-66.
Michael North, Machine-Age Comedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 3-23, 201-203.
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