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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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Main Authors: Bilton, Alan.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Comedy films > History and criticism > United States.
Popular culture > History > 20th century > United States.
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.
Material 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.
Society.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137020253
Summary: 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.
ISBN: 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.

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