Machine-age comedy

The Resource Machine-age comedy
Label
Machine-age comedy
Statement of responsibility
Michael North
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen analyses, North examines the work of a wide range of artists - including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, and David Foster Wallace - to show the creative and unconventional ways the routinization of industrial society has been explored in a broad array of cultural forms. Throughout, North argues that modern writers and artists found something inherently comic in new experiences of repetition associated with, enforced by, and made inevitable by the machine age. Ultimately, this rich, tightly focused study offers a new lens for understanding the development of comedic structures during periods of massive social, political, and cultural change to reveal how the original promise of modern life can be extracted from its practical disappointment."--BOOK JACKET
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Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
791.43/617
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PN1995.9.C55
LC item number
N67 2009
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Modernist literature & culture

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