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Bergson's boffo laughter
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dc.contributor.author | Flaig, Paul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-11T00:42:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-11T00:42:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-02-11 | |
dc.identifier | 259345328 | |
dc.identifier | 00d0a136-cb5c-44e5-a022-5f8a2622d3b4 | |
dc.identifier | 000618352900002 | |
dc.identifier | 85124365434 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Flaig , 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.2021.0001 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2578-4919 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-4608-2091/work/90567984 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/24853 | |
dc.description.abstract | Beginning 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.extent | 29 | |
dc.format.extent | 370474 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Cinema and Media Studies | en |
dc.subject | Comedy | en |
dc.subject | Slapstick | en |
dc.subject | Henri Bergson | en |
dc.subject | Buster Keaton | en |
dc.subject | PN1993 Motion Pictures | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PN1993 | en |
dc.title | Bergson's boffo laughter | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Film Studies | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2021.0001 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2022-02-11 |
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