Umfang:
viii, 244 pages
,
illustrations
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9781137020246
Inhalt:
Introducing American silent film comedy: Clowns, conformity, consumerism -- A convention of crazy bugs: Mack Sennett and US's immigrant unconscious -- Accelerated bodies and jumping jacks: Automata, mannequins and toys in the films of Charlie Chaplin -- Nobody loves a fat man: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and conspicuous consumption in the US of the 1920s -- Dizzy Doras and big-eyed beauties: Mabel Normand and the notion of the female clown -- Consumerism and its discontents: Harold Lloyd and the anxieties of capitalism -- Buster Keaton and the American South: The first things and the last -- The shell-shocked silence: Langdon, repetition-compulsion and the first World War
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-236) and index
,
Introducing American silent film comedy: Clowns, conformity, consumerismA convention of crazy bugs: Mack Sennett and US's immigrant unconscious -- Accelerated bodies and jumping jacks: Automata, mannequins and toys in the films of Charlie Chaplin -- Nobody loves a fat man: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and conspicuous consumption in the US of the 1920s -- Dizzy Doras and big-eyed beauties: Mabel Normand and the notion of the female clown -- Consumerism and its discontents: Harold Lloyd and the anxieties of capitalism -- Buster Keaton and the American South: The first things and the last -- The shell-shocked silence: Langdon, repetition-compulsion and the first World War.
,
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.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Massenkultur
;
Stummfilm
;
Filmkomödie
;
Slapstick
;
USA
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