Books in the Approaches to Semiotics [AS] series

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. PERFORMANCE -- BREAKTHROUGH INTO PERFORMANCE -- ORAL SERMONS AND ORAL NARRATIVE -- II. PERFORMANCE AND COMMUNICATION -- A PARABLE IN CONTEXT: A SOCIAL INTERACTIONAL ANALYSIS OF STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE -- FILIPINO-AMERICAN EROTICA AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF A FOLKLORIC EVENT -- THE TALE-SINGER AND HIS AUDIENCE -- III. TRANSMISSION AND COMMUNICATION -- THE HYPOTHESIS OF MULTI-CONDUIT TRANSMISSION IN FOLKLORE -- IV. COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF FOLKLORIC COMMUNICATION -- QUAKER FOLK-LINGUISTICS AND FOLKLORE -- FOLKLORE, WORLDVIEW, AND COMMUNICATION -- FOLKLORE AND COMMUNICATION ON ST. VINCENT -- INDEX -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Preface to the English Edition -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Petr Bogatyrev and Structural Ethnography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Structural Interrelationship of Costume Functions -- 3. 'Holiday', 'Ceremonial' and 'Ritual' -- 4. Multiple Functions of Costume Parts When Combined With Others -- 5. Transition of Costume from Everyday Through Ritual Stages and the Functional Changes Involved -- 6. Occupational Dress in a Given Community -- 7. Distinctions in Wealth and Social Status as Shown in Costume -- 8. The Magical Function of Costume -- 9. Regionalistic and Nationalistic Functions of Costume -- 10. An Example of an Analysis by the Functional Method of the Disappearance of a Costume -- 11. Functions of Costume Which Indicate the Religious Affiliation of the Wearer -- 12. Functions Indicating the Wearer's Age and Marital Status -- 13. The Headwear of Unwed Mothers -- 14. The Erotic Function of Costume -- 15. The Function of Children's Costume -- 16. Costume as a Sign -- 17. The Function of Everyday Costume -- 18. The Interdependence of Form and Function in Costume: A Change in Costume as a Change in the Whole Structure of Life -- 19. The General Function (The Function of the Structure of Functions) - 'Our Costume' -- 20. The Interdependence of the Functional Structure and the Individual Functions. The Functional Method Expands the Subject Matter of Ethnography. Conclusion -- 21. The Structural-Functional Method in the Study of Village Buildings, Farm Implements and Other Items of Material Culture, as Well as Folklore (Magic, Folk Tales, Songs, Incantations, etc.) -- Glossary -- Illustrations

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- I. Towards the Investigation of Narrative Combinatorics: Introduction -- II. Structural Models in Folklore -- III. Of Bears and Spouses Transformational Analysis of a Myth -- IV. "A Tree Grows" Transformations of a Riddle Metaphor -- Bibliography -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements to/ Remerciements à. Illustrations. We acknowledge / nous remercions: -- Preface / Préface -- Table of contents / Table des matières -- I. Charles Chaplin: The man, his work and his time / L'homme, l'oeuvre et son temps -- Chaplin and the resistance to "talkies" / Bourget, Jean-Loup -- Pretending the world is funny: Charlie Chaplin's job as the prototype comic personality / Fisher, Rhoda Lee / Fisher, Seymour -- Charles Chaplin and the Jewish world / Nysenholc, Adolphe -- The Chaplin reception in Germany (Brilliant comedian and "Jewish film clown") / Hanisch, Michael -- Charles Chaplin en compagnie de Schopenhauer / Henry, Anne -- Les implications de la technique chaplinesque du gag / Oldrini, Guido -- Molière, Chaplin: structures comiques / Malachy, Thérèse -- Chaplin, la matière et l'allégement / Král, Petr -- Charles Chaplin: an embodiment of paradox (le comique et la terreur) / Fry, William F. -- II. Charles Chaplin: His films / Etude de ses films -- Charlie Chaplin or the "vaudeville dispossessed" / Vigouroux-Frey, Nicole -- Chaplin's short films: between narration and monstration / Gaudreault, André -- Gag and narration in Chaplin's cinema at the transition from short to full-length movies (1918-1923) / Cremonini, Giorgio -- Charlie in the Far North: the tall tale element in The Gold Rush / Royot, Daniel -- Comedy and Pathos in City Lights / Mintz, Lawrence E. -- Modem Times and the American culture of the 1930's / Molyneaux, Gerard -- Modem Times in the light of Adorno and Beckett / ¿amps, Yvan / Heyndels, Ralph -- The social function of humor in Charles Chaplin's movies / Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline -- Chaplin's film pioneer status in black or macabre humor / Gehring, Wes D. -- Les films "mineurs" de Chaplin / Beylie, Claude -- III. Charles Chaplin: The myth / Le mythe -- Charlie Chaplin and the comic strips / Inge, M. Thomas -- La représentation de Chariot dans deux magazines pour enfant: Mon Journal (1881-1925) et le Cri-Cri (1911-1937) / Feuerhahn, Nelly -- Le dernier gag de Charles Chaplin / França, José-Augusto -- Chaplin et Chariot / Martin, Marcel -- Chariot et son double / Chateau, Dominique -- Chariot syllepse: éléments pour une théorie du gag / Noguez, Dominique -- Le point de vue de Gulliver / Vuarnet, Jean-Noël -- La Ruée vers l'or / Rolin, Dominique -- Charles Chaplin, poète comique / Nysenholc, Adolphe -- Postscript / Nysenholc, Adolphe -- Postface / Nysenholc, Adolphe -- IV. Bibliography/Bibliographie -- Books on and by Chaplin An international bibliography / Eriksson, Lennart -- V. Appendices / Annexes -- Abstracts / Résumés -- Contributors / Signatures -- VI. Charles Chaplin: Filmography/Filmographie -- VII. Index -- VIII. Illustrations