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 of our own celebrity-obsessed consumer culture.

• | Author: Alan Bilton
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: May 14, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1137020245
• | ISBN-13: 9781137020246