Jacques Tati and the Architecture of Comedic Cinema

Although much has been written about the slapstick antics and the spatialized modernity of the films of Jacques Tati, it is essential to draw a direct line between the physical humor that Tati’s Monsieur Hulot expresses and the joke-filled structures of the commercial buildings and homes in which M. Hulot finds himself.

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