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Comedy Cinema Theory (Paper)
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Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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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