The global difference in average male and female height is about around 7 centimeters. So not that much really. However, in fiction on tv or in film it is almost codified to exaggerate the height difference between the sexes to the size of a full…
Buster Keaton was a master of visual comedy in the era of the silent movie. His use of props and perspective often brilliantly deflates presumptions on how things are supposed to be. In the opening scene of The High Sign (1921) the simple gesture of unfolding…
