10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIGHT GAG»
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Theorizing the Moving Image
This was the sight gag.1 And it is about the sight gag that this article is concerned
. 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.
Laurence Mark Janifer. Sight Gag By Laurence Mark Janifer Start Publishing LLC
Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC.
Laurence Mark Janifer, 2014
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. In
celebrating the ambiguity of appearances, sight gags in effect undermined the
uninformed ...
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The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early ...
between the visual gag and the verbal joke on the grounds that the joke has to
have a punch line whereas the sight gag does not: Verbal jokes generally
culminate in a punchline that at first glance is incongruous by virtue of its
appearing to be ...
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Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones
My argument is that the basis for this sense that these audiovisual pairings "work,
" and the source of the pleasure they seem to give people, can be understood
through Noel Carroll's analysis of the logic of the "sight gag." Carroll argues that ...
Roger Beebe, Jason Middleton, 2007
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Classical Hollywood Comedy
Noel Carroll's intricate and insightful essay, “Notes on the Sight Gag,” in Comedy/
C inema/Theory, ed. Andrew Horton (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1991) has proposed a logical schema underlying the sight gag and also makes a
...
Kristine Brunovska Karnick, Henry Jenkins, 2013
The camera as a vehicle for humor reached a peak about 30 years ago when, in
the silent film comedies, the art of the sight gag flourished. The jokes had to be
seen, not heard, and to meet this challenge the movie-makers produced what ...
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Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary ...
"By the 192os," writes Noel Carroll, "the sight gag is the leading type of film
comedy." While "sight gags are everywhere in the history of film (and television),"
there may be "a deep thematic connection between the sight gag and silent film.
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The Everything Kids' Joke Book: Side-Splitting, Rib-Tickling Fun
The Sight Gag A sight gag is a joke without words. It does not mean wearing silly
clothes or making a goofy grin. A sight gag is a well-planned joke that makes us
laugh because of something we see, rather than something we hear. Young ...
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How to Write for Animation
A man's pants falling down is a sight gag. Charlie Chaplain and Buster Keaton
were masters of the sight gag. Ifthe Olympics gave awards for such nonsense
they would both have a dozen gold medals, but so would Bugs Bunny, Goofy,
Droopy ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIGHT GAG»
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3 More Great Progressive Lies From 'Progressives'
It's his site gag--and a sight gag. Leonardo's bike is a reminder that the great conservative philosophical insight—Ideas Have Consequences—is true only if ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
A Chapman Brother on Making Us Laugh at Human Atrocity
But if his original etching was a sight gag, the Chapmans' bronze is an involved, bathos-filled pastiche. It must take more these days to really be amusing. «Hyperallergic, Jun 15»
Did Joanna Jedrzejczyk pull off the best sight gag trash talk in MMA …
Her video trash talk sight gag didn't pay off, though. Tate will fight Jessica Eye on the co-main event of UFC on FOX 16 in July in Chicago. But hey, it sure was ... «MMAjunkie.com, Jun 15»
Stagger down memory lane with 46 of The Simpsons' greatest visual …
In a move that's both timely and bittersweet, an imgur user has compiled some of The Simpsons' best sign-based sight gags. The classily-named Bookerfuker ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, May 15»
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Women never seemed to take part in the show's gross, silly little sight gags, and she wanted to see them represented. Bob-Waksberg's first reaction was that ... «NPR, Mar 15»
The 31 Best Sight Gags in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
The series is riddled with hilarious jokes that are easily missed if you aren't paying full attention. But don't worry, we rounded up the 31 best sight gags below:. «TV Guide, Mar 15»
Banana cream pie not just for sight gags
While the Three Stooges might have made a career of smacking each other in the face with banana cream pies (among other things), it's probably preferable to ... «Simcoe.com, Mar 15»
'Simpsons' take on 'Frozen' among others in latest couch gag parody
When Bart is skateboarding back home, make sure you have your hand set on the pause button so you can catch the sight gags that swim past the screen in ... «TheCelebrityCafe.com, Dec 14»
Jerry Lewis On Forward Movement And Sight Gags
Nov. 17, 2014 — Long before their legendary and acrimonious split, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were paired together as one of the greatest comedy duos ever ... «Modern Times Magazine, Nov 14»
Hilarious signs and Karen Gillan's patted bottom: did you spot all …
style, blink-and-you'll-miss-it sight gag the show has become known for. This is thanks to the combined powers of the prop department and camera crew, who ... «Radio Times, Aug 14»
