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	Slapstick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence.
		Slapstick is also common in animated cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes.
		Indeed, the uninterrupted modern presence of slapstick comedy--running in film from Buster Keaton to Mel Brooks to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber and Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson--suggests it shall remain a part of the comedic landscape.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slapstick (423 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Slapstick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Slapstick films are a type of comedy film that employ slapstick comedy with five main conventions: Pain with no real consequence, Editing to turn a situation more unrealistic, Impossible situations, Zooms to confuse the audience Off screen use of sounds for impossible stunts and tension for audience.
		Slapstick comedy has not escaped negative attention, though its lengthy presence in performance history and obviously fictitious nature often inures it from the censorious efforts aimed at video games and action films.
		Slapstick can be understood as a positive reinforcement for recognizing the incongruity of behaviour which should be causing extreme pain and injury, but which doesn't.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Slapstick (1293 words)

	Slapstick - Wikipedia
		Slapstick (eigentlich slapstick comedy) ist ein Filmgenre und eine spezielle Form der Komödie.
		Bezeichnend für den Slapstick ist durch eine körperliche oder körperbezogene Aktion hervorgerufene Komik.
		Dem Slapstick ähnlich sind Sendungen, in denen komische und meist unbeabsichtigte Slapstickszenen von Amateurfilmern gezeigt werden, wie Pleiten, Pech und Pannen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slapstick (834 words)

	Slapstick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The was explored extensively during the "golden era" fl and white silent movies directed by Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Buster Keaton Charlie Chaplin Laurel and Hardy and the Keystone Kops reaching perhaps its fullest and most flower with the Three Stooges in their series of talking short
		Slapstick is also common in animated cartoons like Tom and Jerry Roadrunner and in homage Itchy and Scratchy (from The Simpsons).
		Splatterstick is combination of gruesome horror and slapstick comedy.
	www.freeglossary.com /Slapstick (517 words)

	Slapstick Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Slapstick is an excellent example of this form as it is largely a physical humour, which like farce, asks for ridiculous situations.
		The origins of the word slapstick may have first begun with the Commedia dell’Arte, which flourished in Europe in the 16th to 18th Centuries.
		The Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges were masters of slapstick and their films are full of outlandish physical gags and preposterous plot developments.
	www.theatrelinks.com /slapstick.htm (264 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Magazine \| What happened to slapstick?
		Slapstick is making something of a comeback, with two film seasons already this year celebrating silent comedy and a BBC series about the genre scheduled for the Spring.
		And so slapstick followed the same path as fairytales, both of which were originally for adults but were passed down to children when they became unpopular.
		Slapstick is "alive" and certainly well in the Wallace and Gromit films and the Washington Post recently described Gromit as "Perhaps the most expressive silent star since Buster Keaton".
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4746822.stm (1479 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of "slapstick"?
		A slapstick is typically made of two thin boards fastened together at the base to form a handle.
		Slapstick thrived on the silent screen, where the lack of dialogue made subtler forms of comedy difficult, and slapstick's ability to cross linguistic barriers made early comedies accessible to viewers around the world.
		Because of slapstick's universality you don't need to speak Spanish to enjoy "La Escuelita VIP," in which buxom babes and aging comedians (including one who bears an unsettling resemblance to Saddam Hussein) dress as schoolchildren and make what I assume are off-color jokes in a classroom setting.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mslapstick.html (582 words)

	Slapstick (playing tricks on evil!)
		In retaliation, Steve became Slapstick and told the children he was an alien who had come to eat their blood.
		Slapstick gave Denton a spanking and was kissed by Barb.
		Slapstick left when the Denton parents arrived home and excitedly told Mike that, she may not care for him as Steve, but Barb loved him as Slapstick.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix2/slapstick.htm (1540 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Slapstick Encyclopedia
		Taking a roughly chronological approach, each disc in Slapstick Encyclopedia serves up two volumes of films thematically grouped together — from the early innovators, who revamped routines from vaudeville and the music hall, to the ascended masters, whose inspired improvisations created a new visual vocabulary.
		Best known for slapstick (the "breaking-up-a-household-of-furniture-and-chase-through-the-street" type, as one critic dubbed it), Essanay's first big star was Ben Turpin, who for a few years did for crossed eyes what Chaplin later did for oversized shoes.
		The face of slapstick was given a more refined look by real-life married couple Mr.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/slapstickencyclopedia.shtml (5762 words)

	Comedy Is a Man in Trouble excerpt
		Slapstick enables the beleaguered audience to stay here on earth and have the best good time; with a perfect sense of completeness, the clown's martyrdom becomes the good time the audience is having.
		Slapstick marks the death of you as a person of dignity and honor, who has to live his life just so and suffer tragically when the gods, other men, or his own drives make that impossible, and your rebirth as one of the happy, comfortable crowd not expected to uphold any impossible, vaguely aristocratic standards.
		Slapstick stars right up to the present are a hard-driving bunch who take their preeminence in their movies for granted (when they aren't fighting costars to assert it), even when they're playing virtuous and pitiable.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Dale/excerpt.html (9824 words)

	Punknews.org \| Slapstick - Discography
		Slapstick could have stuck around longer than they wanted to; the fanbase was there.
		Slapstick could have been the kings of the world; they settled for being the kings of the Fireside Bowl.
		slapstick is defintely one of the best ska-punk bands of all times, when asian man said they only had 100 copies of the reuinion show i was on the phone and got one, now they have mad more copies due to the demand.
	www.punknews.org /reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=536 (1785 words)

	Slapstick Comedy in the 1920s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Slapstick, one of the earliest forms of comedy, poked fun at farcical situations of physical mishap and indignity, usually in pratfalls, practical jokes, accidents, acrobatic death-defying stunts, water soakings, or wild chase scenes with trains and cars.
		Mood is all in the matter of timing for slap stick comedy.
		Every slapstick comedy actor knows how to portray their characters personality in the films.
	slapstick.lbox.org (155 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Slapstick Masters
		Shiny silver discs of one- and two-reel short films are excellent ways to indulge an aficionado's craving and also introduce a new generation to the gags and gag men (and gag women) that flickered on screens back when movie comics actually had to work for a living.
		If you're new to the "silent classic" comedies, think of his Slapstick Masters as an ankle-deep wade into fun waters, while Slapstick Encyclopedia is a cannonball into the deep end of the pool.
		That issue aside, Slapstick Masters is a first-rate introduction for anyone new to silent comedy, and a worthy addition to the shelves of dedicated enthusiasts.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/slapstickmasters.shtml (1888 words)

	Search Results for "Slapstick"
		Known for his slapstick portrayals replete with facial mugging and sight gags, Lewis teamed...
		...dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect.
		...movie star, Ball was often cast in second features, but she had a comic energy, a flair for slapstick, and a gift for vocal mimicry.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Slapstick (284 words)

	Amazon.com: SLAPSTICK: Books: Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Slapstick, Vonnegut muses on war, man's hubris, and the awful, crippling loneliness humans are freighted with--but, miraculously, the book still manages to delight and amuse.
		This story covers a lot of territory in a short period of time, but, as is the case with 99% of Vonnegut's work (I exclude "Timequake"), it is all tied together into one perfectly flowing storyline.
		The main theme in "Slapstick" is lonliness, and the inexplicable human condition that forces each individual to search for acceptance into something bigger than just individual identity.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440180090?v=glance (1954 words)

	Miyazaki interview: why no more slapstick // Hayao Miyazaki Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The root that holds a slapstick action films together-- things like "I want to be big," "I want to be rich," "I want to have a girl"-- are crumbling.
		In making a slapstick action film, one must employ a story structure in which there are initially various plot complications but, after a certain point, the action becomes the main thing.
		Most people would say that entertainment must be enjoyable outside the purview of critical analysis, and yet entertainment, like everything else, is contingent upon an enormous amount of interdependent theories that together create a logical system which must be adhered to if anything worthwhile is to be produced.
	www.nausicaa.net /miyazaki/interviews/slapstick.html (1980 words)

	Slapstick Encyclopedia Dvd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One classic piece of slapstick is the hapless slip on a bananapeel.
		The style was explored extensively during the "golden era" of fl and white, silent movies directed by Mack Sennett and Hal Roach andfeaturing such notables as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy the Keystone Kops, and the Three Stooges.
		DVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with highvideo and sound quality and for storing data.
	www.computeplaza.com /Help/2315-Slapstick-Encyclopedia-Dvd.Html (747 words)

	slapstick - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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		Burlesque, Commedia Dell’arte, Farce, comic characters in slapstick, directors, forms of comedy, performers known for slapstick, slapstick era of...
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /slapstick.html (95 words)

	Slapstick - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
		Aber auch deutsche Komiker lieben den Humor des Slapstick, und bauen ihn immer weiter aus, wie Bastian Pastewka, Lars Hohlfeld und Ralf Schmitz.
		Slapstick und Co. Frühe Filmkomödien - Early Comedies.
		Slapstick - Pantomime - Maskenspiel von Hans J Zwiefka (Gebundene Ausgabe)
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Slapstick.html (603 words)

	jeblog: slapstick
		I want to say that Slapstick was my first Vonnegut, but that's not true.
		Slapstick was the first Vonnegut I appreciated (read on my own).
		I've always had the gift of being able to pick up a book I've read a few years later and have a totally different reading experience.
	jeb.wordherders.net /archives/003481.html (567 words)

	Slapstick Encyclopedia DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spanning the entire spectrum of slapstick from 1909 to 1927, this definitive collection (curated by film historians David Shepard and Joe Adamson) dutifully credits Keystone Cops creator Mack Sennett as the founder of the slapstick phenomenon.
		The development of slapstick, which had its roots in vaudeville, is witnessed chronologically, mixing the manic pie-fight sensibility of Sennett's Keystone hits with the lesser-known, more sophisticated parlor-room comedy of Mr.
		The Slapstick Encyclopedia is chock full of entertaining, rare movies from the earliest days of silent movies.
	www.classic-entertainment.com /B00005Y6YV/Slapstick_Encyclopedia.shtml (720 words)

	Comedy Films
		Slapstick was predominant in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences in metropolitan areas.
		This is primitive and universal comedy with broad, aggressive, physical, and visual action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and often vulgar sight gags (e.g., a custard pie in the face, collapsing houses, a fall in the ocean, a loss of trousers or skirts, runaway crashing cars, people chases, etc).
		Slapstick evolved and was reborn in the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s (see further below).
	www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms.html (1525 words)

	Wam And Slapstick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	www.best-prom.com /dresses/wam-and-slapstick.html (852 words)

	Silent Era : Info : Slapstick Symposium 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the successful release of the first “Slapstick Symposium,” a series of four DVDs collecting silent film comedies starring Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase and Stan Laurel, Kino International is proud to release a second feast of some of the funniest short comedies ever made.
		Known as one of the most upbeat slapstick legends, Lloyd ascended to stardom by drawing laughter from a positive and hard-working screen character — unlike the personas developed by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
		Although better known for his innocent, harmless characters, Hardy’s heavy physique and often severe stance also allowed him to play the role of slapstick robber and/or villain — as seen in The Show (1922), where Hardy tries to steal the payroll of a performance that Larry Semon is trying to stage.
	www.silentera.com /info/slapstickSymp2.html (765 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| What happened to slapstick?
		Norman Wisdom, now 91, is perhaps our last truly slapstick comedian, he says.
		Slapstick didn't die - in fact it's still very much with us.
		At least slapstick had its genuinely funny moments at times.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/magazine/4746822.stm (1479 words)

	SLAPSTICK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Set in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Slapstick is the story of a silent film slapstick genius, Harold Gilbert.
		But it is her abuse of the children that sends her to the mental institution from which she never returns.
		The language in Slapstick is often as raw as the emotions it portrays.
	www.myshelf.com /literary/00/slapstick.htm (415 words)

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