Alan Bilton
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2013
9781349437474
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
2013
ISBN13: 9781349437474
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349437474
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
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