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Silent Film Comedy and American Culture Alan Bilton 1st ed. 2013 edition
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture
Alan Bilton
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.
244 pages, VIII, 244 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349437474 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 244 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 299 g |
| Language | English |