A Head or a Cannonball? An Introduction to the Object of Comedy
Jamila M. H. Mascat and Gregor ModerSection 1
Comic PhilosophyChapter 1. The uncanny and the comic. Freud avec Lubitsch
Mladen DolarChapter 2. How They Fought
Sandra LaugierChapter 3. Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness. On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship
Jamila M. H. MascatChapter 4. The Aborted Object of Comedy & the Birth of the Subject. Socrates and Aristophanes' Alliance
Rachel Aumiller Section 2
Comic PsychoanalysisChapter 5. The Three Moments of Comedy
Robert PfallerChapter 6. From Objects of Desire to Objects of Comedy in Chaplin's Modern Times
Alfie BownChapter 7. Where Does Dirt Come From?
Alenka Zupančič Section 3
Screening ComedyChapter 8. Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of it All
Benjamin NoysChapter 9. Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton's The General
Lisa TrahairChapter 10. Bad Cops
Todd McGowan Section 4
Performing ComedyChapter 11. Richard Pryor, the Conedian
Alexi KukuljevicChapter 12. Comedy as Performance
Gregor ModerChapter 13. After Death Comes Humour. On the Poetics of Alexander Vvedensky
Keti ChukhrovChapter 14. Asking for It. An exchange
Cassandra Seltman and Vanessa Place Chapter 15. Of Organic Comedies. Interview with Romeo Castellucci
Jamila M.H. Mascat Notes on ContributorsAbstractsIndex.