The Slapstick Camera

The Slapstick CameraDemonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium. Slapstick film comedy may be grounded in idiocy and failure, but the genre is far more sophisticated than it initially appears. In this book, Burke Hilsabeck suggests that slapstick is often animated by a philosophical impulse to understand the cinema. He looks closely at movies and gags that represent the conditions and conventions of

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ecological consciousness

They also look at the ways in which notions of socially responsible research

carotovorum and pseudostem wet rot and rhizome rot - in some parts of the world called rhizome necrosis and corm rot-

That threatened social chaos is the central unifying story of this book

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The nonprofit housing sector

These highly personal essays from a range of academic settings explore the palpable moments of discomfort

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Describes how to develop test blueprints and assemble

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