Slapstick Comedy

Introduction: Restoring Slapstick to the Historiography of American Film Tom Paulus and Rob King

Part One: Originality and Adaptation

1. The Good Thieves: On the Origins of Situation Comedy in the British Music Hall Bryony Dixon

2. D. W. Griffith Shapes Slapstick Barry Salt

3. Genre Parody and Comedic Burlesque: Keystone's Meta-Cinematic Satires Simon Joyce

4. Both Sides of the Camera: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's Evolution at Keystone Joanna E. Rapf

5. Mud Pies and Tears: Little Mary's Funny Side Anke Brouwers

Part Two: Mechanics and Modernity

6. Mack Sennett vs. Henry Ford Eileen Bowser

7. "Uproarious Inventions": The Keystone Film Company, Modernity, and the Art of the Motor Rob King

8. Mechanisms of Laughter: The Devices of Slapstick Tom Gunning

9. Slapstick Skyscrapers: An Architecture of Attractions Steven Jacobs

10. California Slapstick Revisited Charles Wolfe

Part Three: Bodies and Performance

11. Dancing on Fire and Water: Charlot and L'Esprit Nouveau Amy Sargeant

12. Splashes of Fun and Beauty: Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties Hilde D'Haeyere

13. Back to the "Slap": Slapstick's Hyperbolic Gesture and the Rhetoric of Violence Muriel Andrin

14. The Art of Imitation: The Originality of Charlie Chaplin and Other Moving-Image Myths Jennifer M. Bean