Silent film comedy and American culture
This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way that foreshadows the concerns o...
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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Popular culture
> c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)
> c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)
> c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)
> USA.
Film theory & criticism
> c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)
> c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)
> c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)
> USA.
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137020253 |
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This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way that foreshadows the concerns of our own celebrity-obsessed consumer culture. |
Item Description: |
Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137020246. |
Carrier Form: | 256 p. : 27 b&w, ill. |
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9781137020246 9781137020253 : 1137020253 : |
CLC: | J909.712 |
Contents: | 1. An Introduction to Silent Film Comedy and American Culture: Clowns, Conformity, Consumerism 2. A Convention of Crazy Bugs: Mack Sennett and America's Immigrant Unconscious 3. Accelerated Bodies and Jumping jacks: Automata, Mannequins and Toys in the Films of Charlie Chaplin 4. Nobody Loves A Fat Man: Conspicuous Consumption and the Case of Fatty Arbuckle in 1920's America 5. Dizzy Doras and Big-Eyed Beauties: Mabel Normand and the Notion of the Female Clown in American Silent Film 6. Consumerism and its Discontents: Harold Lloyd and the Anxieties of Capitalism 7. Buster Keaton and the South: The First Things and the Last 8. Sleepwalkers on Parade: The Shell-Shocked Silence of Harry Langdon Coda. |