The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde

by Owen Hatherley

There was something uncanny about Charlie Chaplin. His fellow actors spoke of him as inhuman--automaton-like. His stiff, comic movements could be viewed as an attempt to parody the newly developed production lines of Henry Ford's revolutionary factories. As wide-scale application of this technology spread to Soviet Russia, Chaplin's slapstick comedic style also found a following among the artists carving out a new society under communism.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745336019
• ISBN13: 9780745336015
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.9"