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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 85–117.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Maggie Hennefeld This article rethinks the emergence of narrative film syntax through the comedy genre, focusing on slapstick films that depict female unruliness. I discuss films featuring Mabel Normand, Florence Turner, Marie Dressler, Sarah Duhamel, and other forgotten silent comediennes, arguing...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 144–167.
Published: 01 September 2006
... expressions gradually break into laughter. Now they seem to know what they have to do. One woman slaps the other woman. Slapstick begins. The slapped woman stands up, and the next cut shows her in a field of wildly colored flowers. We have left the grayness of the credit sequence, as well...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 76–91.
Published: 01 May 1992
.... In the end it is the analyst who appears as an embodi- ment of suicidal parapraxis. The film is Cracking Up (sometimes retitled Smorgasbord) and the performer/director is Jerry Lewis. Clearly it is a comedy, relying on slapstick for much of its momentum, but it is also a serious film about...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 184–185.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Introduction: The Place of the Contemporary Female Director. No. 85: pp. 1 – 3 Matt Delmont “Miserable Women on Television”: Irene McCabe, Television News, and Antibusing Politics. No. 87: pp. 33 – 63 Maggie Hennefeld Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 230–231.
Published: 01 September 2001
... 2001 Books Received Dale, Alan. Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Darley, Andrew. Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres. New York: Routledge, 2000. Elsaesser...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 193–231.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in the Chinese film market, with the decline of French film dominance in the wake of World War I and the simultaneous increase in American film exports and the sweep- ing success of the “low” genres such as slapstick comedy, westerns, adventure serials, and detective films. The period from 1913 to 1926 thus...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 7–33.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., of course, is Clue (dir. Jonathan Lynn, US, 1985), and something queer is going on. The sexual dissidence to which Mr. Green has just copped may furnish the film with a series of sight gags and slapstick bits that extend from the character's first moments on screen to his last, but, despite the film's...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 47–77.
Published: 01 January 1988
... various "trouble-prone secretaries" and "boy-mad coeds In 1938 Para• mount decided to change her image as slapstick comedienne and feature her in a series of glamour girl roles, including Give Me a Sailor (1938) in which she won not only a legs contest against Betty Grable...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 95–105.
Published: 01 September 1988
... things, a slapstick sense of humor that "feeds upon the sadistic and the pornographic instinct In relation to the 103 "sadistic" framing of decadrage, one can only wonder at the oppor• tunities missed in Bonitzer's neglect of Panofsky's provocative, if prob• lematic, discourse on film. We can also...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2000
... into the abandoned object twice. The silent fight, the car crash- ing into the object, and the Bavarian music positions the short sequence in a tradition of slapstick.6 05-Mennel&Onigiri 150-175=26pgs 1/25/01 1:47 PM Page 158 158 • Camera Obscura...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
... almost excessive in its sexual role-playing within what, by this time, was the estab- lished couplehood of the team. In the film, Laurel visits his mar- ried friend and finds him in the aftermath of a violent marital spat with Mrs. Hardy (Mae Busch), who, as was typical of the domestic slapstick...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 9–57.
Published: 01 December 2001
... are obvious and crucial indices, as are mystery-crime films, western adventures, slapstick comedies, jungle safaris, deep-sea spectacles, and so on. I cannot do more than gesture toward such genres here, but their presence alerts us to the exis- tence of a competing industrial logic in the period, one...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 50–72.
Published: 01 January 1990
... of slapstick comedy than to moral or political reflection. Nonetheless, there remains a certain moralizing, allegorizing undertone (a voice familiar from Porter’s other work, for example, The Kleptomaniac [190S]) in the film’s construction-in the confrontation of two incom...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 77–105.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the communism-building states of Eastern Europe have overlooked in their architectural planning of a better world.14 As in slapstick comedy, nothing goes as planned in For- man’s film, and if what needs to happen eventually happens, it is the result of a fortunate turn...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 108–131.
Published: 01 May 1990
.... The mildly slapstick interrogation scenes bind a number of other subplots. Scenes in which Salt-N-Pepa are part of groups of women dancing and playing are interspersed with separate scenes of male dancers, co-ed dance segments with Kid-N-Play, E.U.’s lead singer acting...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of intimacy, particularly in the way that friendships between cast members are often framed through slapstick scenes and other lighthearted, comedic vignettes. At the reunions, Cohen has often explained the relationships between certain cast members through invocations of iconic sitcom sidekicks. He has...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 115–147.
Published: 01 December 2002
... proportion to his growing popularity, the connection between disgust and desire is particularly acute. His insalubrious comic style, replete with slapstick, potty-mouth verbiage, and the A Star Is Porn • 121 broad winks of old vaudeville, adheres...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... hierarchy as inau- thentic. Phil and Claire simultaneously run into doors with a sign reading “Not An Exit” as slapstick punishment for their bullying, The Privatization of Diversity • 47 but Phil and Claire’s story maintains skepticism of the erudition attached...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and Alfred Molina play the film s two principal Afghan characters), and, in one particularly egregious moment, Harry Nilsson s Without You plays while brown people are being shot to death. The slapstick humor of Whiskey allows the Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive 111 banalizing of death and loss...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 15–41.
Published: 01 May 1997
... we are not only shielded from registering the shock of Sam’s brutality, but also positively encouraged to derive pleasure from it. For this reason, 1 think that Whoopi Goldberg’s cinematic career as a slapstick comedienne and her highly visible role as an emcee for Comic Relief...