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Silent Film Comedy and American Culture 2013th Edition
Author(s): Alan Bilton (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 14 May 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 252 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137020245
- ISBN-13: 9781137020246
Book Description
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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About the Author
Alan Bilton is Lecturer in English and American Studies at Swansea University, UK. He is author of An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction (EUP, 2002), editor of America in the 1920s: Literacy Sources and Documents, Volume One: The Cultural Condition, Volume Two: Voices of Modernity and Volume Three: An Age of Performance (with Philip Melling, Helm Information, 2004), and he has published articles in international journals such as the European Journal of American Studies, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review and The Journal of American Studies.
