Comedy Incarnate

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In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys thecharacteristics of Buster Keaton's unique visual style, toreveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton's films. * Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America'sforemost film theorists * Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton'sstyle * Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis ofthe Keaton's work * Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedyitself

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Noël Carroll

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"Buster Keaton was an engineer of the comic, a craftsman of gags, a mechanic of humor. While Carroll does not aspire to be as funny as Keaton, he can match (and follow) him in intricate and brilliant analysis, providing a logic of illogic. A book that will change how slapstick and film style are written about." Tom Gunning, University of Chicago "Comedy Incarnate is a brilliant, inventive and lucid examination of Buster Keaton's The General. Through close textual analysis, Carroll opens up a wide expanse of historical and theoretical territory - positioning The General in relation to the writings of Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and Poulet, as well as to the films of Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon. Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh "Building on Keaton's directorial practice as a sort of civil engineer who engaged a mechanical universe, Carroll...investigates how Keaton's emphasis on gags and their intelligibility characterize the film in specific ways. In so doing he opens up an understanding of how Keaton's comedy of body intelligence works, especially in contrast to contemporaries like Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, and he shows how intelligence--the artist's and the viewer's--informs laughter." CHOICE
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