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The Mechanics Of The Tectonic Man: Comedy And The Ludic Function Of A Serious Man And Punch-Drunk Love, Walter C. Metz Apr 2011

The Mechanics Of The Tectonic Man: Comedy And The Ludic Function Of A Serious Man And Punch-Drunk Love, Walter C. Metz

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The paper uses the cultural historical methods of Johan Huizinga, particularly on the comedic, ludic nature of social life to read two films: Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love and the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man.