The Silent Clowns'A lavishly illustrated, affectionate treatment by one of the finest critics of our time...Kerr is more than a brilliant master of verbal description; he is a penetrating, lucid theorist. This book is as much about comedy as about movies, about eyes and ears and how and why we laugh.'-Thomas Wills, Chicago Tribune Book World |
Contents
The Pickford Paradox and the Choice of Silence | 2 |
The Unique Experience | 12 |
The Bact in the Bantasy 4 The Jantasy in the Jact | 24 |
Copyright | |
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