Risible : laughter without reason and the reproduction of sound /
"Risible offers an alternative re-telling of the intellectual, technological, and sonic history of laughter, a phenomenon that cannot be accounted for through its causes (such as theories of comedy). Instead, Delia Casadei argues, laughter is a technique of the human body, knowable by its repet...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Laughter without reason
- Risible creatures
- Laughter as (sound) reproduction
- George W. Johnson's laughable phonography
- Contagion
- Canned laughter, gimmick sound
- Conclusion.