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

2023

1 min

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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