Slapstick Comedy: Under What Conditions Can Body Movements be Humorous?

The Soviet Union of the 1920s produces and supports multiple connections between the policy of work in factories and the research in medical, neurological, and collective physiology. The theatrical and cinematic work of S. M. Eisenstein forms a specific prism where these interconnections appear in a spectrum of concrete attempts to engage the factory as an aesthetic and political model. The factory as a concrete topos which Eisenstein exploits in Gas Masks and Strike questions the interrelations between the human body and machine in a new iconology of a striking factory. For the duration of the Strike, the factory is represented beyond any functionality: the workers’ body movements and gestures are all the more expressive the less they have to do with their everyday work. This modulated status of production appears in Capital, Eisenstein’s unfulfilled project to realize Marx’s political economy with methods of inner monologue invented by Joyce. This last project transfigures the factory strike into the structure of cinematographic thinking where the neuro-sensorial stimuli constantly strike the logic of the everyday consciousness in the non-personal, polyphonic, and intimate monologue.

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Buster Keaton’s Climate Change

10.1093/oso/9780190696771.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Fay

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

World War I ◽

Storm Surges ◽

Weather Conditions ◽

Detailed Knowledge ◽

World War ◽

Precise Control ◽

Naturally Occurring ◽

Peter Sloterdijk ◽

Slapstick Comedy

Much of Buster Keaton’s slapstick comedy revolves around his elaborate outdoor sets and the crafty weather design that destroys them. In contrast to D. W. Griffith, who insisted on filming in naturally occurring weather, and the Hollywood norm of fabricating weather in the controlled space of the studio, Keaton opted to simulate weather on location. His elaborately choreographed gags with their storm surges and collapsing buildings required precise control of manufactured rain and wind, along with detailed knowledge of the weather conditions and climatological norms on site. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) is one of many examples of Keaton’s weather design in which characters find themselves victims of elements that are clearly produced by the off-screen director. Keaton’s weather design finds parallels in World War I strategies of creating microclimates of death (using poison gas) as theorized by Peter Sloterdijk.

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Computer simulation of chemotaxis in caenorhabditis elegans in consideration of whole-body movements

2015 SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) ◽

10.1109/intellisys.2015.7361209 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Zu Soh ◽

Michiyo Suzuki ◽

Yuichi Kurita ◽

Toshio Tsuji

Keyword(s):

Computer Simulation ◽

Caenorhabditis Elegans ◽

Whole Body ◽

Body Movements

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Skeleton-based visualization of poor body movements in a child's gross-motor assessment using convolutional auto-encoder

2021 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM) ◽

10.1109/icm46511.2021.9385618 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Satoshi Suzuki ◽

Yukie Amemiya ◽

Maiko Sato

Keyword(s):

Body Movements ◽

Motor Assessment ◽

Gross Motor

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Fibroblast fusion to the muscle fiber regulates myotendinous junction formation

Nature Communications ◽

10.1038/s41467-021-24159-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Wesal Yaseen ◽

Ortal Kraft-Sheleg ◽

Shelly Zaffryar-Eilot ◽

Shay Melamed ◽

Chengyi Sun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Muscle Fiber ◽

Musculoskeletal System ◽

Smooth Transition ◽

Common Mechanism ◽

Myotendinous Junction ◽

Body Movements ◽

Dual Identity ◽

Junction Formation ◽

Myogenic Program ◽

Developing Muscle

AbstractVertebrate muscles and tendons are derived from distinct embryonic origins yet they must interact in order to facilitate muscle contraction and body movements. How robust muscle tendon junctions (MTJs) form to be able to withstand contraction forces is still not understood. Using techniques at a single cell resolution we reexamine the classical view of distinct identities for the tissues composing the musculoskeletal system. We identify fibroblasts that have switched on a myogenic program and demonstrate these dual identity cells fuse into the developing muscle fibers along the MTJs facilitating the introduction of fibroblast-specific transcripts into the elongating myofibers. We suggest this mechanism resulting in a hybrid muscle fiber, primarily along the fiber tips, enables a smooth transition from muscle fiber characteristics towards tendon features essential for forming robust MTJs. We propose that dual characteristics of junctional cells could be a common mechanism for generating stable interactions between tissues throughout the musculoskeletal system.

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