Second Nature

Comic Performance and Philosophy
Herausgeber: Gray, Josephine; Trahair, Lisa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining Henri Bergson's work, philosophy, and the body, this volume explores the history and philosophy of comedy, film, psychoanalysis and the comic performance of the future, creating a theoretical and practice-based framework for the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781786615091
• ISBN-10: 1786615096
• Artikelnr.: 60011339

Autorenporträt

Edited by Josephine Gray and Lisa Trahair

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Comedy: Towards an Alternative History of Mimesis, by María J.
Ortega Máñez
Chapter 2. The Two Laughters of Lecoq: The Clown and the Bouffon, by
Caterina Angela Agus, Giovani Fusetti and Davide Giovanzana
Chapter 3. The Masked Comic Figure in Alain Badiou's Philosophy, by Fred
Dalmasso
Chapter 4. The Body that Laughs and Cries: Helmuth Plessner's Keys to
Anthropology and Theatre, by Xavier Escribano
Chapter 5. Valentin, Brecht and Comic Inelasticity: Ridiculing Rigidity as
an Impediment to Social Change, by Meg Mumford
Chapter 6. Happiness, Dead and Alive: Object Theatre as Philosophy of the
Encounter, by Carolyn Shapiro
Chapter 7. Living in the Doll House: Cavell, Comedy and The Ladies Man, by
Lisa Trahair
Chapter 8. Trouble in Paradise?: Impotence and Comedy, by Lisabeth During
Chapter 9. "Only What Is Born Lives": Kafka L.O.L., by Jean-Michel Rabaté
Chapter 10. The Grotesque: Comic Performance and the Paradox of Acting, by
Josephine Gray
About the Authors