The comic mind : comedy and the movies
"Although books on the comedies of the silent era abound, few have attempted to survey film comedy as a whole--its history and evolution, how the philosophical visions of its greatest artists and directors have shaped its traditions, and how these visions have informed both the meaning and manner of their work. Blending information with interpretation, description with analysis, Mast traces the development of screen comedy from the first crude efforts of Edison and Lumiere to the subtlety and psychological complexity of "Annie Hall," As he guides the reader through detailed discussions of specific films, Mast reveals the structures, the values, and the cinematic techniques which have appeared and reappeared in comic cinema. The second edition of "The Comic Mind" treats the comic developments of the 1970s in terms of the traditions of film comedy set forth in the first edition, including a discussion of the evolution of Jacques Tati and the emergence of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen as the two greatest American comic stylists of the seventies. "The most comprehensive study of film comedy yet written in English"--Choice
Print Book, English, 1979
Second edition View all formats and editions
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 369 pages [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226509761, 9780226509785, 0226509761, 0226509788
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Comic structures
Comic thought
Comic films: categories and definitions
Jests, tricks, and the first comic personalities
Mack Sennett
Cahllin: from Keystone to Mutual
Chaplin: first nationals and silent features
Chaplin: sound films
Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Harry Langdon
More fun shops
Sound and structure
Ernst Lubitsch and Renė Clair
Jean Renoir
The dialogue tradition
The clown tradition
The ironic tradition
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