Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)

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Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)Carnival
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Peter Brueg the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival
and Lent (1559)
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Carnival before Lent, Rio de Janeiro
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Carnival before Lent, Rio de Janeiro
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Mardi Gras in New Orleans, 1907
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Mardi Gras recently
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Henri Bergson 1859-1941

• Comedy arises from our challenged assumptions
  when they are abruptly proven false
  http//www.authorama.com/laughter-1.html

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Mary Ann Doane, Film and the Masquerade
theorizing the female spectatorPhotograph Un
Regard Oblique (A sideways glance) by Robert
Doisneau, 1948 (Matthews, page 53)