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BL
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728640
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b548392
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Alan Bilton.
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| Title & Author
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Silent film comedy and American culture\ Alan Bilton.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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| ISBN
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1137020245
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: 1137020253
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: 9781137020246
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: 9781137020253
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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| LC Classification
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PN1995.9.C55A436 2013
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Alan Bilton
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