Gesture in slapstick tradition in transition.

• 主要作者: Quek, Eunice.
• 其他作者: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2009
• 主題: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Film theory and criticism
• 在線閱讀: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15193
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

My paper scrutinizes the role of gesture in slapstick films, from the silent to the sound era. I focus on the performances of early slapstick actors like Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, classical Hollywood slapstick actors Cary Grant and Jerry Lewis, and contemporary Hollywood slaps...