Category: Blog Post 3 (due Friday Sept 29 by 5 PM)

Week 3 (1 October): Slapstick / Bergson / Machines

Henri Bergson, “Chapter 1,” Laughter, trans. Brereton & Rothwell (London: MacMillan, 1911), 1-66.

James Agee, “Comedy’s Greatest Age,” Film Writing and Selected Journalism (Washington: Library of America, 2005), 9-33.

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.

Monday October 1, 2018 sc270

The Naked Gun and Modern Slapstick Comedy (Stewart Clark)

Sunday September 30, 2018 Sophie Hill

Henri Bergson’s Ideas Applied to the Golden Globes Monologue of 2015

Saturday September 29, 2018Saturday September 29, 2018 Mado

The production of laughter (Mado)

Friday September 28, 2018Friday September 28, 2018 am432

Building a Laugh With Buster Keaton and Korg by Amanda McAfee

Friday September 28, 2018 hrp2

Humour in the Human Machine (Harriet Pollard)

Friday September 28, 2018Friday September 28, 2018 lv28

Laughter as a Community-Dependent Activity (Lilja Valtonen)

Friday September 28, 2018 ycy

Clothes, Cryptids and the Comic

Friday September 28, 2018 wal3

Why We Laugh: A Study of Fail Videos

Friday September 28, 2018 ds227

Physical Caricatures Turned Into Impression by Jessy Stanley

Friday September 28, 2018Friday September 28, 2018 cmbc

Sacha Baron Cohen: Becoming Invisible