Silent Film Comedy and American Culture
| By: | Alan Bilton |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137020246 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137020253 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.