Bergson's Boffo Laughter
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چکیده
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 Comic (1900) its theoretical, historical, formal links to slapstick cinema. It focuses neglected references by Gilles Deleuze, James Agee sympathetic, schizophrenic, "boffo" laughter viscerally connecting audiences slapstick's absurdly vitalized machines acrobatic automatons. argues for more dialectical relationship terms often opposed in Bergsonian accounts both comedy cinematic apperception, including vitality mechanism, laughing comical bodies, cold pragmatism sensorial sympathy.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JCMS
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2578-4919', '2578-4900']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2021.0001