Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

By Alan Bilton

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349437476
• ISBN13: 9781349437474
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"