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Visions of Excess : selected writings, 1927-1939 by Georges Bataille; Allan Stoekl (Translator); Carl R. Lovitt (Contribution by)
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Publication Date: 1985
The Forms of the Affects by Eugenie Brinkema
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Laughing Mad : The Black Comic Persona in Post Soul America by Bambi Haggins
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Disgust : the gatekeeper emotion by Susan Miller
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Publication Date: 2004
Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai
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The Female Grotesque : Risk, Excess, and Modernity by Mary Russo
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Publication Date: 1994
Extravagant Abjection : Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott
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The Hydra’s Tale : Imagining Disgust by Robert Rawdon Wilson
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Publication Date: 2002

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Comic Politics : Gender in Hollywood Comedy After the New Right by Nicole Matthews
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Publication Date: 2001

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All Joking Aside : American Humor and Its Discontents by Rebecca Krefting
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Publication Date: 2014

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Disgust : the theory and history of a strong sensation by Winfried Menninghaus; Howard Eiland (Translator); Joel Golb (Translator)
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Laughter : notes on a passion by Anca Parvulescu; C. Robert; M. Sean; E. Steven; Stockholm Inst Of Transition Staff
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Publication Date: 2010

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Female Trouble: a Queer Film Classic by Chris Holmlund
Call Number: eBook, PN1997 .F453 H65 2017, Innis (Course Reserves), other libraries

Publication Date: 2017
Popular Film and Television Comedy by Steve Neale; Frank Krutnik
Call Number: ebook, PN1995.9 .C55 N44 1990, Innis, other libraries

Publication Date: 1990
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes by Maggie Hennefeld
Call Number: eBook, PN1995.9 .C55 H46 2018X Robarts

Publication Date: 2018
Hokum! : the early sound slapstick short and Depression-era mass culture by Rob King
Call Number: ebook, PN1995.9 .C55 K547 2017, Innis & other UofT Libraries

Publication Date: 2017
Film, comedy, and disability : Understanding humour and genre in cinematic constructions of impairment and disability by Alison Wilde
Call Number: eBook, HV1568.2 .W55 2018. Innis, Robarts

Publication Date: 2018
Pursuits of Happiness - The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Paper) by Stanley Cavell
Call Number: SCAN - HathiTrust, PN1995.9 .C55 C38, Innis (Course Reserves), Robarts, other libraries

Publication Date: 1984

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The Film Comedy Reader by Gregg Rickman
Call Number: SCAN - HathiTrust, PN1995.9 .C55 F55 2001, Innis

Publication Date: 2004

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Laughing Fit to Kill by Glenda Carpio
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Publication Date: 2008

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Another fine mess : A history of American film comedy by Saul Austerlitz
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Publication Date: 2010

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Reeling with laughter : American film comedies--from anarchy to mockumentary by Michael V. Tueth
Call Number: PN1995.9 .C55 T83 2012, Innis & other UofT Libraries

Publication Date: 2012

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Hollywood comedians, the film reader by Frank Krutnik (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2003

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John Waters : Interviews by James Egan (Editor)
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John Waters : Indecent exposure by Kristen Hileman
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Pretty/funny : Qomen comedians and body politics by Linda Mizejewski
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Publication Date: 2014

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Hysterical! : Women in American comedy by Linda Mizejewski (Editor); Victoria Sturtevant (Editor); Kathleen Rowe Karlyn (Introduction by)
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Horror, the Film Reader by Mark Jancovich (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2001
Zombie Theory by Sarah Juliet Lauro (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2017
Zombie Cinema by Ian Olney
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A Companion to the Horror Film by Harry M. Benshoff (Editor)
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Monsters in the Closet by Harry M. Benshoff
Call Number: SCAN - HathiTrust, PN1995.9 .H6 B468 1997

Publication Date: 1997

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Monster Cinema by Barry Keith Grant
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Laughing Screaming : modern Hollywood horror and comedy by William Paul
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Publication Date: 1994

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