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.
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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.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
موضوع مستند نشده
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History and criticism.
موضوع مستند نشده
Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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شماره رده
PN1995
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9
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C55
نشانه اثر
A436
2013
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