Comments on: BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES /between-the-navel-and-the-knees/ Art and media blog of the unexpected Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:05:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dave /between-the-navel-and-the-knees/comment-page-1/#comment-1804 Dave Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:40:43 +0000 /?p=8537#comment-1804 Again, very articulate comment on your part. The art and science of laughter is indeed a serious study. I wrote about it in a previous blog with relation to Freud and Jung i think; it goes back several months, but my understanding seems broadened by peeling away a few layers on Chaplin. That metaphor of active bateria is terrific as Chaplin really liked mucking around in it. Again, very articulate comment on your part. The art and science of laughter is indeed a serious study. I wrote about it in a previous blog with relation to Freud and Jung i think; it goes back several months, but my understanding seems broadened by peeling away a few layers on Chaplin. That metaphor of active bateria is terrific as Chaplin really liked mucking around in it.

]]> By: Dave /between-the-navel-and-the-knees/comment-page-1/#comment-1803 Dave Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:36:55 +0000 /?p=8537#comment-1803 Thanks for taking the time to respond. With Chaplin, even a blog takes on a life of its own; he is a subject much more complex, and detailed than most give him credit for. The writers I referred to in the column, ( Gunning and Trotter, seem to understand important elements that escaped the minds of the Frankfurt school ) Best,Dave Thanks for taking the time to respond. With Chaplin, even a blog takes on a life of its own; he is a subject much more complex, and detailed than most give him credit for. The writers I referred to in the column, ( Gunning and Trotter, seem to understand important elements that escaped the minds of the Frankfurt school ) Best,Dave

]]> By: Chad /between-the-navel-and-the-knees/comment-page-1/#comment-1802 Chad Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:17:57 +0000 /?p=8537#comment-1802 Very cool blog Dave. Charlie Chaplin was at a theater near our place downtown LA. It's cool. Very cool blog Dave. Charlie Chaplin was at a theater near our place downtown LA. It’s cool.

]]> By: mason mckibben /between-the-navel-and-the-knees/comment-page-1/#comment-1799 mason mckibben Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:30:04 +0000 /?p=8537#comment-1799 The effort to kill or appropriate the active bacteria always yields a kind of "mirthless laughter" [Joyce:Ulysses] Hence the burden incumbent on artists always to mine the material and flesh out the laughter: this is what Chaplin is after with his intimacies, i believe. A similar thing happens in various theaters today. Often large crowds laugh together or individuals laugh separately, but there are marked modes of laughter. I learn alot about others and myself at these times. Clearly, something is "going on" at these parts in the film, whether the filmmaker grasps it or not. It would be fun to replay Chaplin for modern audiences in a modern cineplex or whatever they call them these days. -mason The effort to kill or appropriate the active bacteria always yields a kind of “mirthless laughter” [Joyce:Ulysses] Hence the burden incumbent on artists always to mine the material and flesh out the laughter: this is what Chaplin is after with his intimacies, i believe.

A similar thing happens in various theaters today. Often large crowds laugh together or individuals laugh separately, but there are marked modes of laughter. I learn alot about others and myself at these times. Clearly, something is “going on” at these parts in the film, whether the filmmaker grasps it or not. It would be fun to replay Chaplin for modern audiences in a modern cineplex or whatever they call them these days.

-mason

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