Table of Contents:
  • Problematics of film comedy. Notes on the sight gag / Noël Carroll
  • Penis-size jokes and their relation to Hollywood's unconscious / Peter Lehman
  • Sometimes I feel like a motherless child : comedy and matricide / Lucy Fischer
  • In search of radical metacinema / Stephen Mamber
  • Mock realism : the comedy of futility in eastern Europe / Charles Eidsvik
  • Comic occasions. Charles Chaplin and the annals of anality / William Paul
  • The light side of genius : Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the screwball tradition / Dana Polan
  • Cartoon and narrative in the films of Frank Tashlin and Preston Sturges / Brian Henderson
  • The three stooges and the (anti- )narrative of violence : de(con)structive comedy / Peter Brunette
  • Paralysis in motion : Jerry Lewis's life as a man / Scott Bukatman
  • Woody Allen's Zelig : an American Jewish parody / Ruth Perlmutter
  • The mouse who wanted to f--k a cow : cinematic laughter in Dusan Makavejev's films / Andrew Horton.