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dc.contributor.authorFlaig, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-11T00:42:12Z
dc.date.available2022-02-11T00:42:12Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-11
dc.identifier259345328
dc.identifier00d0a136-cb5c-44e5-a022-5f8a2622d3b4
dc.identifier000618352900002
dc.identifier85124365434
dc.identifier.citationFlaig , P 2021 , ' Bergson's boffo laughter ' , Journal of Cinema and Media Studies , vol. 60 , no. 2 , pp. 4-31 . https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2021.0001en
dc.identifier.issn2578-4919
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4608-2091/work/90567984
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24853
dc.description.abstractBeginning with an imagined encounter between Buster Keaton and Henri Bergson, this article offers a fundamental rereading of Bergson's Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1900) and its theoretical, historical, and formal links to slapstick cinema. It focuses on neglected references by Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and James Agee to a sympathetic, schizophrenic, and "boffo" laughter viscerally connecting audiences to slapstick's absurdly vitalized machines and acrobatic automatons. It argues for a more dialectical relationship between terms often opposed in Bergsonian accounts of both slapstick comedy and cinematic apperception, including vitality and mechanism, laughing and comical bodies, and cold pragmatism and sensorial sympathy.
dc.format.extent29
dc.format.extent370474
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Cinema and Media Studiesen
dc.subjectComedyen
dc.subjectSlapsticken
dc.subjectHenri Bergsonen
dc.subjectBuster Keatonen
dc.subjectPN1993 Motion Picturesen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccPN1993en
dc.titleBergson's boffo laughteren
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Film Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/cj.2021.0001
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2022-02-11


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