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Velvet Light Trap archives from September 1990
Introduction.
September 22, 1990... AT LEAST SINCE 1949, WHEN JAMES AGEE'S celebrated essay remembering "Comedy's Greatest Era" appeared in Life, silent film comedy has cast a critical shadow over later comedians. Looking back at a golden age of comedians using a distinctly...
"Fifi was my mother's name!": anarchistic comedy, the vaudeville aesthetic and Diplomaniacs.
September 22, 1990... WRITING IN 1932, ANTONIN ARTAUD CHARACTERIZED the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers as a "hymn to anarchy and whole hearted revolt" against the constraints of narrative, morality, psychic and social repression, everyday logic, and rational...
What is a Marx Brother?: critical practice, industrial practice, and the notion of the comic auteur.
September 22, 1990... WHEN ANDREW SARRIS FIRST POPULARIZED auteur criticism in the United States with his The American Cinema, he included in his catalog of auteurs eight comic performers. Since five of these performers also worked in creative nonperforming roles...
The nutty professor: a "problem" in film scholarship.
September 22, 1990... THE QUALITY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF JERRY Lewis's films have been debated by American and French film criticism for over twenty years. The "problem" (1) began as an American fascination with the French critical appreciation of Lewis, an...
The faint aroma of performing seals: the "nervous" romance and the comedy of the sexes.
September 22, 1990... When love congeals, it soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels--I wish I were in love again.
--Lorenz Hart (1)
Heterosexual love may be a "many splendored thing," but it is also a game...
The rise and fall of animal comedy.
September 22, 1990... A BELLYDANCER IN TRADITIONAL SCANTY costume slowly circles around a donkey making caressing gestures towards it in anticipation of their sexual encounter. She's been paid for it in advance and approaches her work with apparent pleasure, but the...