Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

May. 06,2023

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Slapstick Comedy Experimental Essay Film

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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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