The Object of Comedy Philosophies and Performances /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Mascat, Jamila M. H. (Editor), Moder, Gregor (Editor)
Summary:	XIII, 300 p. 3 illus. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Series:	Performance Philosophy,
Subjects:	Theater > History. Performing arts. Theater. Philosophy. Contemporary Theatre and Performance. Theatre and Performance Arts.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27742-0
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Section 1 – Comic Philosophy
Chapter 1. The uncanny and the comic. Freud avec Lubitsch – Mladen Dolar
Chapter 2. How They Fought – Sandra Laugier
Chapter 3. Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness. On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship – Jamila M. H. Mascat
Chapter 4. The Aborted Object of Comedy & the Birth of the Subject. Socrates and Aristophanes’ Alliance – Rachel Aumiller
Section 2 – Comic Psychoanalysis
Chapter 5. The Three Moments of Comedy – Robert Pfaller
Chapter 6. From Objects of Desire to Objects of Comedy in Chaplin’s Modern Times – Alfie Bown
Chapter 7. Where Does Dirt Come From? – Alenka Zupančič
Section 3 – Screening Comedy
Chapter 8. Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of it All – Benjamin Noys
Chapter 9. Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton’s The General – Lisa Trahair
Chapter 10. Bad Cops – Todd McGowan
Section 4 – Performing Comedy
Chapter 11. Richard Pryor, the Conedian – Alexi Kukuljevic
Chapter 12. Comedy as Performance – Gregor Moder
Chapter 13. After Death Comes Humour. On the Poetics of Alexander Vvedensky – Keti Chukhrov
Chapter 14. Asking for It. An exchange – Cassandra Seltman and Vanessa Place
Chapter 15. Of Organic Comedies. Interview with Romeo Castellucci – Jamila M.H. Mascat.

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