Sadržaj:
  • Golden eras and blind spots / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick
  • A spanner in the works? / Frank Krutnik
  • Comedy, melodrama, and gender / Kathleen Rowe
  • Funny stories / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins
  • Crazy machines in the garden of forking paths : mischief gags and the origins of American film comedy / Tom Gunning
  • Pie and chase : gag, spectacle and narrative in slapstick comedy / Donald Crafton
  • Responses to "pie and chase" / Tom Gunning
  • Commitment and reaffirmation in Hollywood romantic comedy / Kristine Brunovska Karnick
  • Acting funny / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick
  • The Keystone Film Company / Doug Riblet
  • The making of a comic star : Buster Keaton and The saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer
  • Goin' to town and beyond : Mae West, film censorship and the comedy of unmarriage / Ramona Curry
  • The laughing stock of the city : male dread, performance anxiety and Unfaithfully yours / Henry Jenkins
  • Comedy and the social world / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins
  • Divorce, DeMille, and the comedy of remarriage / Charles Musser
  • Romantic love and friendship : the redefinition of gender relations in screwball comedy / Tina Olsin Lent
  • Queerness, comedy, and The women / Alex Doty.