Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slapstick / Ervin Malakaj and Alena E. Lyons -- PART I: HISTORY OF SLAPSTICK. Introduction / Alena E. Lyons and Ervin Malakaj -- The Descent of Slapstick / Paul Michael Babiak -- Ideology, Performance, and Ironic Distance in Musical Slapstick / Peter Edwards -- Sinking and Falling Bodies: The Beginnings of Literary Slapstick in the Pre-Modern Era / Carolin Struwe-Rohr -- PART II: INSTRUMENTS OF SLAPSTICK. Introduction / Alena E. Lyons and Ervin Malakaj -- The Broken Mirror: From Commedia All’Improvviso to Slapstick Comedy / Sebastian Hauck -- Harold Lloyd and the Reappearing Hand: Disability, Embodiment, and Slapstick / Courtney Andree -- Wardrobe Malfunction and Slapstick Humiliation in The Lonely Island’s Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping / Addie Tsai -- Gazing at Slapstick with Luiza Folegatti’s Drag King Series O Deleite da Mulher Barbada / Alena E. Lyons -- PART III: NARRATIVE STRUCTURES OF SLAPSTICK. Introduction / Alena E. Lyons and Ervin Malakaj -- Telling and Showing: Slapstick in Stephan Schütze’s Comic Theory and Heinrich von Kleist’s Der zerbrochne Krug / Alexander Kling -- A Constraint-Based Approach to the Slapstick Seriality in Larry Semon Comedies, 1918–1920 / Claudia Sassen and Stefan Schroeder -- The Anonymized Randomness of Vicco von B.: On Chaos and Order in Loriot’s Agfa Advertisements / Claudia Sassen -- PART IV: BODIES OF SLAPSTICK. Introduction / Ervin Malakaj and Alena E. Lyons -- The Tragicomic Body: On the Relation between Tragicomedies and Slapstick / Caroline Frank -- ‘Or Words to That Effect’: The Antimetaphysics of Slapstick / Irina Hron -- Gender and Jewish Difference in Early German Slapstick / Valerie Weinstein -- PART V: POLITICS OF SLAPSTICK. Introduction / Ervin Malakaj and Alena E. Lyons -- Slapstick Comediennes in Silent Cinema: Women’s Laughter and the Feminist Politics of Gender in Motion / Maggie Hennefeld -- Lubitsch’s Queer Slapstick Aesthetics / Ervin Malakaj -- The Slapstick of Greater Mexico: The Poetics and Politics of Eugenio Derbez / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado -- Interpersonal and Social Sensibility in Slapstick from the Perspective of Religious History / Jiří Hoblík -- PART VI: STICKING TO THE SLAP: THE CONTACT POINTS OF SLAPSTICK. Closing Remarks: Creating Openings / Alena E. Lyons and Ervin Malakaj -- Each One, Who Falls: A Conversation / Anne Brannys

"Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research." -- Baksida.

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