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Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

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By (author): Alan Bilton

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. See more
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  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 14 May 2013
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781137020246

About Alan Bilton

Alan Bilton is Lecturer in English and American Studies at Swansea University UK. He is author of An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction (EUP 2002) editor of America in the 1920s: Literacy Sources and Documents Volume One: The Cultural Condition Volume Two: Voices of Modernity and Volume Three: An Age of Performance (with Philip Melling Helm Information 2004) and he has published articles in international journals such as the European Journal of American Studies The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review and The Journal of American Studies.

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