Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

Bilton, Alan

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-05-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137020246

DOI: 10.1057/9781137020253

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 244