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Silent film comedy and American culture

Bilton, Alan.

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Silent film comedy and American culture

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Silent film comedy and American culture/ Alan Bilton.
Author:	Bilton, Alan.
Published:	Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
[NT 15003449]:	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.
Subject:	Comedy films - History and criticism. - United States -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137020253
ISBN:	9781137020253 (electronic bk.)

Silent film comedy and American culture
Bilton, Alan.

Silent film comedy and American culture[electronic resource] /Alan Bilton. - Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781137020253 (electronic bk.)

Source: 582334Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

769784
Comedy films
--History and criticism.--United StatesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.C55 / B64 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/617

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