Slapstick Modernism - William Solomon

Slapstick Modernism

Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2018
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08394-5 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary modernism throughout the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive expression in postwar literature, experimental film, and popular music. William Solomon charts the origins and evolution of what he calls slapstick modernism --a merging of artistic experimentation with the socially disruptive lunacy made by the likes of Charlie Chaplin. Romping through texts, films, and theory, Solomon embarks on an intellectual odyssey from the high modernism of Dos Passos and Williams to the late modernism of the Beats and Burroughs before a head-on crash into the raw power of punk rock. Throughout, he shows the links between the experimental writers and silent screen performers of the early century, and explores the potent cultural undertaking that drew inspiration from anarchical comedy after World War II.

William Solomon is an associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Baltimore
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-252-08394-6 / 0252083946
ISBN-13 978-0-252-08394-5 / 9780252083945
Zustand Neuware
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