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	Sight Gags and Charlie Chaplin--student essay
		This type of sight gag is set up so that a character in the film misunderstands something that is happening in the scene, however the audience can see both sides of the situation and is aware of the truth.
		The definition of a switch movement sight gag is when "one movement is transformed into another in one seamless line of movement."(Page 35) With this technique, it is possible for a character to completely change the way one action looks by smoothly shifting into another action.
		The author points out that "the sight gag flies in the face of the prejudice that movies can only brutishly recapitulate from a single point of view what stands before the camera." From the conflicts of interpretation to the literal and metaphoric points of view, it is these things that confuse but amuse us.
	www.cornellcollege.edu /classical_studies/lit/sightgags.htm (1215 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		vision physiological sense of sight by which the form, color, size, movements, and distance of objects are perceived.
		Blindness may be caused by injury, by lesions of the brain or optic nerve, by disease of the cornea or retina, by pathological changes originating in systemic disorders (e.g., diabetes) and by cataract, glaucoma, or retinal detachment.
		Known for his slapstick portrayals replete with facial mugging and sight gags, Lewis teamed (1946-56) with singer Dean Martin for a series of nightclub appearances and films.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sight&StartAt=1 (547 words)

	Visual gag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In comedy, a visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humor visually, often without words being used at all.
		There are examples in cinema history of directors who based most of the humour in their films on visual gags, even to the point of using no or minimal dialogue.
		Visual gags are often used in surreal comedy, with many Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches making use of them, such as the "Mrs Gorilla" sketch in which a series of middle-aged women have been shopping and bought piston engines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visual_gag (290 words)

	The Gag Reflex
		Keaton could create gags from sequences of shots, as in his amazing trajectory gags, where he is propelled through space, a plaything of momentum, gravity, and the objects in his path.
		Gag after gag in the history of comedy depends on exploiting, rather than concealing the apparent limitations of the film frame.
		This is an extension of the flatness gag – using the limits of the screen for unrealistic pleasure.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/33/the_gag_reflex.html (3145 words)

	Sight Gags and Satire in the Soviet Thaw: Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
		Thus, the alternative interpretations proposed by a sight gag are nothing other than alternative working models, which mimic and explain the relations and behaviour of objects present in the diegetic space.
		The rhetorical power of Gaidai's narrative lays exactly in the “eureka” effect of the sight gags, and other associational forms of reasoning, while Shurik replaces the already obsolete worker or peasant from the Soviet films of previous decades, revealing the rising aspirations of the Soviet population and the change in their worldview (16).
		This is where we see the close similarity between the functioning of the sight gag in visual comedy and the moments filled with surprise here, in which the viewer suddenly realises that the function of objects in slapstick simultaneously hides and illuminates the function of the “same” objects in the abstract satirical working model.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/33/operation_y.html (5836 words)

	Sample Response Assignment for Comparative Literature 303: Film Genre--Comedy
		Drawing from Carroll's essay, one could say that a sight gag is a humorous device used in movies, in which different visual interpretations, both by the audience members and by the character's themselves, play an integral part in forming the humor.
		The fifth classification of Sight Gags, the object analog (which seems to share a small gray or overlapping area with the switch movement and the switch image) is also portrayed in The General.
		And perhaps this sight gag can also be referred to and classified under mutual interference, simply because Keaton is unaware when the engineer is starting the engine and preparing to move the train.
	faculty.washington.edu /kgb/complit303/sampr2.htm (986 words)

	Salt Water Sportsman Magazine - Fishing - Sight Gags
		Gag grouper are common in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, especially around reefs, wrecks, coral and ledges.
		All gags are born as females and change sex after 11 years.
		Gags spawn in 100- to 120-foot depths from December until May, with the peak months being February and March.
	www.saltwatersportsman.com /saltwater/fishing/article/0,12746,1051075,00.html (1622 words)

	Falling on funny times / 'Sight Gags and Slapstick' show reveals humor in everyday mishaps.
		George W. Bush didn't show up Friday night at the California College of Arts and Crafts for the opening of "Sudden Glory: Sight Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art." But if he had, he would have been the prime exhibit.
		The exhibition is about falling, spilling, dripping and otherwise losing status, so, after his recent fall as a result of eating a pretzel, Dubya would have been the center of attention and the subject of great mirth.
		Equally hysterical in a more buttoned-down Swiss manner are Roman Signer's various exercises in futile absurdity, the best of which is a pair of photographs that show a table propelled out the window of a house in the Alps by means of a giant slingshot.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/22/DD204631.DTL&type=printable (695 words)

	Hot Shots/ Hot Shots Part Deux
		These films are Mad magazine on film, with sight gags galore, which is a trademark of Abrahams and company.
		The plot is really secondary to the sight gags in the film and for the most part they work but I just didn't laugh that much as it seemed the comedy was a bit forced from the cast, excluding Bridges.
		The sight gags are funnier, and the cast seems more at ease with their shtick.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/hotshots.html (606 words)

	AIRPLANE! 25TH ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW
		It is, quite simply put, an unadulterated masterpiece of silliness, buffoonery, juvenile high jinks, sophomoric sight gags, and sharply pointed satire and overall corniness.
		Dramas move us on a deeply resonate emotional level; thrillers are meant to inspire tension and scares; escapist fantasies are meant to instill in the audience a undeniable sense of endless wonder in their sights; and screen comedies, quite earnestly, are meant to inspire consistent laughter in those that view it.
		The gag here is that everyone around him thinks he’s Kareem, but he always just tries to pass himself off as a lowly co-pilot.
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/airplane.htm (2730 words)

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	reveries.com > marketing insights + ideas » Blog Archive » Sight Gags
		That language would be the language of the “sight gag” as perfected by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Mack Sennett, Harold Lloyd and Harry Langdon.
		It is, in short, a language of “gestures and camera placements” versus a language of “double entendres and stinging comebacks … Physical comedy did not exactly die with the rise of the talkies, as any fan of The Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis or Jim Carrey will attest.
		Humor that is mute — or that deals with nothing more refined than the laws of gravity or the problems of digestion — often seems dumb: either childish, or implicitly, lower class.” Of course, that is exactly what gave silent-screen comedy its appeal.
	reveries.com /?p=794 (394 words)

	MoMA \| press \| Releases \| 1999 \| New Drawings Exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art Explores Role of Humor in ...
		Sight Gags: Grotesque, Caricature, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing
		Polke was among the first and most well-known postwar artists to incorporate humor into his work, often taking his inspiration from comic strips and other popular amusements.
		An eclectic mix of techniques, styles, and periods reflecting the richness of the Museum's drawings collection, Sight Gags comprises some 80 works on paper by approximately 65 artists, organized into four categories: the grotesque, caricature, visual puns and conceptual jokes, and works inspired by comics and cartoons.
	www.moma.org /about_moma/press/1999/sight_gags_1_21_99.html (607 words)

	American News \| 10/01/2006 \| 'Scoundrels' offers sight gags, sophomoric humor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Posing as a surgeon, Dr. P sets his sights on wooing Roger's crush.
		Amanda is suddenly the unwitting prize in a war of one-upmanship between master and student.
		This audience will be dominated by giggling teenagers, featuring sight gags and sophomoric humor - which, apparently, I haven't entirely risen above.
	www.aberdeennews.com /mld/aberdeennews/news/15653429.htm (504 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mr. Hulot's Holiday at Epinions.com
		Tati's films feature precisely choreographed sight gags, mannerisms, and comic sound effects, with precious little dialog, making his movies reminiscent of the silent film era and such masters of that tradition as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
		In one scene, we watch a child carry two ice cream cones, one in each hand, toward the hotel, all the while expecting one or both to be dropped, especially with the child comes to a difficult door knob.
		He lets the sight gags develop within the frame in a leisurely manner.
	www.epinions.com /content_169109655172 (1765 words)

	Clown Antics: Walkaround Gags & Jokes Books
		Daren Dundee's speciality is taking household items or odds and ends, and twisting them together into a zany collection of comic props and sight gags to tickle both children and adults.
		Over fifty illustrated comic props and sight gags with a few favorite jokes and observations thrown in, "from the demented mind of daren dundee." The cover says: perfect for MCs, clowns, life of party people, magicians, whoever!
		A collection of 88 gags and a sections full of jokes and riddles for the new clown of an experienced clown looking to liven up a routine.
	www.clownantics.com /walkaroundbooks.shtml (372 words)

	Wrangler News - Tired sight gags only part of that doesn't 'Click'
		In spite of the presence of two very young and endearing children (Joseph Castanon and Tatum McCann), who comprise architect Michael Newman’s nuclear family, college-age audiences are the real target audience for the crude, sophomoric humor that permeates this film.
		Those tired sight gags involving big breasts, flatulence and dogs doing stereotypical dog things stand in (poorly, I should add) for original humor.
		Who cares what the moral is. At the beginning of the second half of Click I should have hit fast forward on my own remote and left it while I was still laughing.
	www.wranglernews.com /di062406.htm (742 words)

	Aim to Please (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The image of someone vainly attempting to position a portable satellite dish is one of the most popular sight gags of all time.
		The hand-held sighting unit lets you visually scan an area to find a suitable location for signal reception of one to three satellites simultaneously; by simply setting the dials to the satellite coordinates and aiming.
		Available with both the sighting unit and dish mount or, for owners of roof-mounted dishes, as just the sighting tool.
	www.motorhomemagazine.com /output.cfm?id=900757 (199 words)

	The Comic Visualised, or Laughing at Shallow Hal
		At least part of the critical impulse to dismiss the idea of a sympathetic sight gag or socially responsible slapstick – an idea that has become absolutely central to the Farrelly Brothers' oeuvre – depends on a foundational philosophy of comedy.
		The sight gag is a form of visual humor in which amusement is generated by the play of alternative interpretations projected by the image or image series...
		With sight gags, the loci of the relevant incongruities are the alternative, generally opposed interpretations put in play visually by the image (6).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/33/shallow_hal.html (5296 words)

	ART REVIEW; Doodles And Gags To Make 'Em Smile - New York Times
		Humor, a relatively rare presence in art, is more apt to occur in drawing than in painting or sculpture, possibly because line has a quickness and lightness that makes it easy to convey.
		So a new exhibition, ''Sight Gags: Grotesque, Caricature and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing'' at the Museum of Modern Art is a welcome occurrence.
		In fact, ''Sight Gags'' is meant to complement the museum's forthcoming exhibition, opening April 1, of works on paper by Sigmar Polke, one of the earliest postwar painters to exploit kitsch and popular culture in humorous ways.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E7DD163DF93AA25751C0A96F958260 (718 words)

	Drum Corps International (DCI) -- Marching Music's Major League - 95
		After it was first posted on DCI.org that the show had made it into the 2005 Classic Countdown, many who weren’t around and hadn’t witnessed this show on DVD asked how a tenth place show could make the cut.
		But when it comes to sight gags, they just don’t stop, some which you have to concentrate on to catch.
		A shark fin being pulled across the field on a rope to the “Jaws” theme was a long-standing VK sight gag, and although not seen in this show, it was often seen during pre-show on-field warmups.
	www.dci.org /news/news.cfm?news_id=e2e269c1-d838-4c08-b012-f252d4f8db80 (764 words)

	Scary Movie Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		In fact, the sprinkling of sight gags running through Me, Myself & Irene makes for a mild skirmish compared to the all-out assault of visual humor that inhabit Scary Movie.
		As horror films are continually criticized for their gratuitous excesses, comedy movies of late also seem to be evolving with much more explicit, controversial material — for better or worse.
		Director Keenen Ivory Wayans — the eldest Wayans brother — is smart not to overdevelop Scary Movie's plotline (a problem with the Farrellys' Irene), working instead with loosely related vignettes as he did with the superior I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=129784 (966 words)

	My oh Myers! 'Goldmember' fouls out with forced sight gags, sniggering puns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The script is little more than a series of narrative sprints interspersed throughout a parade of phallic sight gags, verbal innuendoes and sniggering puns.
		Myers has settled into the characters of retro-hipster Austin and fey arch-foe Dr. Evil so completely that he turns their stories into a series of asides and in-jokes, while foul-and-proud-of-it henchman Fat Bastard (Myers gone sumo-sized under rolls of fleshy latex) pushes the boundaries of bathroom humor with hyperactive zeal.
		His gold lamé Goldmember, however, is a pale straight man whose forced-accent gags and cartoony contortions make him less an outre addition to the Myers menagerie than a freckled, feckless human Muppet.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/80024_austin26q.shtml (746 words)

	Carroll Study Questions for Comparative Literature 303: Film Genre--Comedy
		Noel Carroll begins his essay by distinguishing among the variety of kinds of silent films that provoked laughter—trick films and magic films, slapstick and roughhouse—and finally, the sight gag.
		Here he is working out a description of what constitutes a sight gag overall, and then he establishes subtypes of this category of visual comedy.
		In an intriguing pair of final paragraphs, Carroll invokes the “anxiety of photography,” the belief held by many aestheticians at the turn of the 20th century that neither photography nor film could be “art” because, unlike painting, these media just mechanically reproduce reality.
	faculty.washington.edu /kgb/complit303/carroll.htm (424 words)

	The Daily News Online
		Sight gags score big during Super Bowl commercial blitz
		NEW YORK (AP) -- Cartoonish violence ruled the day at the annual knockdown competition among advertisers Sunday, as Bud Light, Diet Pepsi, Michelob and Sprint all used physical gags to hawk their wares at the Super Bowl, the most-watched television broadcast of the year.
		Bud Light, one of the biggest heavyweights of the Super Bowl every year, had an interesting multi-part ad featuring a guy who cleverly disguises his fridge stocked with beer from his thirsty friends with a secret revolving door that places the fridge in his neighbors' apartment.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2006/02/06/nation_world/news08.txt (672 words)

	Gamehelper Consoles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kids will probably find the cartoony graphics and sight gags funny enough to justify the asking price, but anyone else should give this a pass.
		Hidden around the environments are hot spots that cue sight gags, as well as the “Die-o-Ramas,” which are 34 different ways for Crash to die.
		Some very funny sight gags and lots of different race types.
	consoles.gamehelper.com /articles/844.htm (876 words)

	Cock-a-Doodle Dog (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Plot Outline: Collection of classic Tex Avery visual gags, set up as a battle between a sleep-deprived bulldog who just wants some shut-eye, and a rooster driven by his natural instincts to crow all night long.
		This short is simply one long string of sight gags in a battle of wits between a dog (usually named Spike, but not to be confused with the Spike found in Tom and Jerry cartoons with some frequency.
		Great cartoon, but the unrelenting and unbroken chain of sight gags begins to wear on you.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0043419 (280 words)

	Amazon.com: Reel Gags: Books: Bill Givens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gags and Gag Gift Superstore — Save up to 50% at Gagworks.com with over 1000 fun items to choose from for all ages.
		A good writer provides their audience with a vast amount of information that would take years to obtain and puts it in a simple, easy to read and understand, book.
		"Reel Gags" is the never ending story of the inside humor of our movie Directors, Producers, Writers, and just about anyone else that had any say in the movie whatsoever.
	www.amazon.com /Reel-Gags-Bill-Givens/dp/1580630421 (1558 words)

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