Machine-Age Comedy

by Michael North

Book Overview

In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen analyses,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195381238
• ISBN13: 9780195381238
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"