Gesture in slapstick tradition in transition.

• Main Author: Quek, Eunice.
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Film theory and criticism
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15193
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

My paper scrutinizes the role of gesture in slapstick films, from the silent to the sound era. I focus on the performances of early slapstick actors like Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, classical Hollywood slapstick actors Cary Grant and Jerry Lewis, and contemporary Hollywood slaps...