Machine-age comedy

Machine-age comedy

by North, Michael

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"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 o…

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  • Full title :Machine-age comedy / Michael North.

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"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."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:viii, 222 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780195381221, 019538122X, 9780195381238, 0195381238
  • oclc:ocn232001922
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.C55
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43/617

Table of Contents

Camera men -- Mickey's mechanical man -- Goldberg variations -- Wyndham Lewis, soldier of humor -- Beckett's machinations -- A more than infinite jest.

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Subjects

Comédie -- Histoire et critique Comedy Comedy -- History and criticism Comedy films Comedy films -- History and criticism Comic, The Comique Criticism, interpretation, etc Filmästhetik Filmkomödie Filmkomödie -- Geschichte 20. Jh Films comiques -- Histoire et critique Geschichte 1900-2000 Humor -- historia -- 1900-talet Komik Literatur Modernism Philosophie Technischer Fortschritt Technologie

Writers

North, Michael

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