Acknowledgments
Introduction
Andrew Horton
Problematics of Film Comedy
Notes on the Sight Gag
Noel Carroll
Penis-size Jokes and Their Relation to Hollywood's Unconscious
Peter Lehman
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Comedy and Matricide
Lucy Fischer
In Search of Radical Metacinema
Stephen Mamber
Mock Reallsm: The Comedy of Futility in Eastern Europe
Charles Eidsvik
Comic Occasions
Charles Chaplin and the Annals of Anality
William Paul
The Light Side of Genius: Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the
Screwball Tradition
Dana Polan
Cartoon and Narrative in the Films of Frank Tashlin and Preston
Sturges
Brian Henderson
The Three Stooges and the (Anti-)Narratlve of Violence:
De(con)structive Comedy
Peter Brunette
Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man
Scott Bukatman
Woody Allen's Zelig: An American Jewish Parody
Ruth Perlmutter
The Mouse Who Wanted to F-k a Cow: Cinematic Carnival Laughter In
Dusan
Makavejev's Films
Andrew Horton
Selected Bibliography and Works Cited
Contributors
Index
Andrew S. Horton is Professor of English at Loyola University, New Orleans. He is the author of George Roy Hill and the forthcoming Soviet Cinema under Glasnost.
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