Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy (2023)
• May 6th, 2023 • 0h 1min
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An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir. Charles Chaplin and Edward Brewer
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