The Object of Comedy Philosophies and Performances /

What is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its objectives - both its deliber...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mascat, Jamila M. H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Moder, Gregor (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2019.
Σειρά:Performance Philosophy
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Section 1 - Comic Philosophy
  • Chapter 1. The uncanny and the comic. Freud avec Lubitsch - Mladen Dolar
  • Chapter 2. How They Fought - Sandra Laugier
  • Chapter 3. Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness. On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship - Jamila M. H. Mascat
  • Chapter 4. The Aborted Object of Comedy & the Birth of the Subject. Socrates and Aristophanes' Alliance - Rachel Aumiller
  • Section 2 - Comic Psychoanalysis
  • Chapter 5. The Three Moments of Comedy - Robert Pfaller
  • Chapter 6. From Objects of Desire to Objects of Comedy in Chaplin's Modern Times - Alfie Bown
  • Chapter 7. Where Does Dirt Come From? - Alenka Zupančič
  • Section 3 - Screening Comedy
  • Chapter 8. Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of it All - Benjamin Noys
  • Chapter 9. Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton's The General - Lisa Trahair
  • Chapter 10. Bad Cops - Todd McGowan
  • Section 4 - Performing Comedy
  • Chapter 11. Richard Pryor, the Conedian - Alexi Kukuljevic
  • Chapter 12. Comedy as Performance - Gregor Moder
  • Chapter 13. After Death Comes Humour. On the Poetics of Alexander Vvedensky - Keti Chukhrov
  • Chapter 14. Asking for It. An exchange - Cassandra Seltman and Vanessa Place
  • Chapter 15. Of Organic Comedies. Interview with Romeo Castellucci - Jamila M.H. Mascat.