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Silent film comedy and American culture

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47261] Author:	BiltonAlan.,
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2013
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource.
[NT 47266] Subject:	Comedy films - History and criticism. - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Silent films - History and criticism. - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	ART / Film & Video -
[NT 47266] Subject:	PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Material culture -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Film theory & criticism -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Popular culture -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Society -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137020253
[NT 47265] Notes:	Description based on print version record.
[NT 51398] Summary:	Bilton's 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 bypassing rational thought to express the unconscious fears, wishes and concerns of the modern age. Silent film comedy, with its childlike love of the illogical, the destructive and the anti-social, seems to suggest a form of comic revolt against the mechanisation and the uniformity of the machine age, but the book also charts how a new consumer culture sought simultaneously to tame and contain these energies, redirecting them in the service of a newly emergent mass culture. Not just a film history of the silent era, Bilton also provides a provocative and lively engagement with the origins of mass culture, tracing the origins of Hollywood's dream factory and alongside it the roots of our own irrational, childlike, celebrity-obsessed consumer culture.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9781137020253electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	1137020253electronic bk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	An introduction to silent film comedy and American culture: clowns, conformity, consumerism A convention of crazy bugs: Mack Sennett and America's immigrant unconscious Accelerated bodies and jumping jacks: automata, mannequins and toys in the films of Charlie Chaplin Nobody loves a fat man: conspicuous consumption and the case of Fatty Arbuckle in 1920's America Dizzy Doras and big-eyed beauties: Mabel Normand and the notion of the female clown in American silent film Consumerism and its discontents: Harold Lloyd and the anxieties of capitalism Buster Keaton and the south: the first things and the last Sleepwalkers on parade: the shell-shocked silence of Harry Langdon Conclusion.

Silent film comedy and American culture
Bilton, Alan.

Silent film comedy and American culture / Alan Bilton. - Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 1 online resource..
An introduction to silent film comedy and American culture: clowns, conformity, consumerism.
Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references..
ISBN 9781137020253ISBN 1137020253
Comedy filmsSilent filmsMotion picturesART / Film & VideoPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / ReferenceMaterial cultureFilm theory & criticismPopular cultureSociety -- History and criticism. -- History and criticism. -- Social aspects -- United States -- United States -- United States

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