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Silent Film Comedy and American Culture
Alan Bilton
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture
Alan Bilton
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.
256 pages, 27 black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 14, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9781137020246 |
Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 244 |
Dimensions | 137 × 223 × 23 mm · 417 g |