Machine-age comedy

Author / Creator

North, Michael, 1951- author

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Online

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 ...

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.

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