
Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy(2023)
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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