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Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

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 o...

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Main Author: Bilton, Alan. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Cultural studies.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—History.
Performing arts.
United States—Study and teaching.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Cultural Studies.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Performing Arts.
American Culture.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137020253
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