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Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping

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In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theoristsTakes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s styleWeighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s workProvides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself

Author(s): Noel Carroll
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 192

Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: The Phenomenological Background......Page 9
1 Themes of The General......Page 25
2 Style in The General......Page 83
3 Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon......Page 132
Summary......Page 161
Appendix: Narration in Keaton’s The General......Page 166
Index......Page 183