Silent Film Comedy And American Culture

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Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

Silent Film Comedy and American Culture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9781137020253
ISBN-13 : 1137020253
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Book Synopsis Silent Film Comedy and American Culture by : Alan Bilton

Download or read book Silent Film Comedy and American Culture written by Alan Bilton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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