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رده
PN1995.9.C55 A436 2013
PN1995
.
9
.
C55
A436
2013
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
1137020245
1137020253
9781137020246
9781137020253
b548392
Silent film comedy and American culture
[Book]
Alan Bilton.
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
An introduction to silent film comedy and American culture: clowns, conformity, consumerism --;A convention of crazy bugs: Mack Sennett and America's immigrant unconscious --;Accelerated bodies and jumping jacks: automata, mannequins and toys in the films of Charlie Chaplin --;Nobody loves a fat man: conspicuous consumption and the case of Fatty Arbuckle in 1920's America --;Dizzy Doras and big-eyed beauties: Mabel Normand and the notion of the female clown in American silent film --;Consumerism and its discontents: Harold Lloyd and the anxieties of capitalism --;Buster Keaton and the south: the first things and the last --;Sleepwalkers on parade: the shell-shocked silence of Harry Langdon --;Conclusion.
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.
Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History and criticism.
Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism.
PN1995
.
9
.
C55
A436
2013
Alan Bilton.
Alan Bilton
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