Format:
vii, 232 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780745336015
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9780745336114
Content:
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. In The Chaplin Machine, Owen Hatherley unearths the hidden history of Soviet film, art, and architecture. Turning upside down the common view that the communist avant-garde was austere and humorless, he reveals an unexpected comedic streak that found its inspiration in the slapstick of the American performers Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. What did it mean for socialists to combine the ideas of Chaplin and Ford? Were their experiments indicative of a new future conception of work and leisure? And to what degree was this emphasis on comedy a precursor to the strangely festive despotism of Stalin? By asking these questions, The Chaplin Machine challenges our understanding of twentieth-century art in America and abroad.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783717736
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793717750
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783717743
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Hatherley, Owen, 1981 - The Chaplin machine London, England : Pluto Press, 2016 ISBN 9781783717736
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745336015
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Chaplin, Charlie 1889-1977
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Slapstick
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Rezeption
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Sowjetunion
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Experimentalfilm
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Fordismus
Author information:
Hatherley, Owen 1981-
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