The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies

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Title
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
I: ASSUMPTIONS, DEFINITIONS, AND CATEGORIES
	1. Comic Structures
	2. Comic Thought
	3. Comic Films— Categories and Definitions
II: PRIMITIVES
	4. Jests, Tricks, and the First Comic Personalities
	5. Mack Sennett
III: CHAPLIN AND KEATON
	6. Chaplin: From Keystone to Mutual
	7. Chaplin: First Nationals and Silent Features
	8. Chaplin: Sound Films
	9. Keaton
IV: OTHER SILENT CLOWNS
	10. Harold Lloyd
	11. Harry Langdon
	12. More Fun Shops
V. SOUND COMEDY
	13. Sound and Structure
	14. Ernst Lubitsch and Rene Clair
	15. Jean Renoir
	16. The Dialogue Tradition
	17. The Clown Tradition
	18. The Ironic Tradition
The Case for Comedy
Notes
Selective Bibliography
Appendix A. Distributors of Comic Films
Appendix B. Photo Credits
Index