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Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

Alan Bilton author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:14th May '13

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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.

ISBN: 9781137020246

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 4238g

244 pages