Slapstick modernism : Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop / William Solomon.
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TextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States -- History
- Literature, Experimental -- United States -- History and criticism
- Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism
- Motion pictures and literature -- United States
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism
- American literature
- Literature, Experimental
- Modernism (Literature)
- Motion pictures and literature
- Silent films
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 810.9/005 23
- PS310.M57 S55 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the origins of slapstick modernism -- 1920s. The work of art in the age of mechanical transportation -- The politics and poetics of attraction I: Dos Passos -- The politics and poetics of attraction II: Harold Lloyd's "thrill" films -- Becoming-child: Harry Langdon -- 1930s. The emergence of slapstick modernism -- Theoretical interlude: Benjamin and the question concerning second technology -- 1950s-1960s. The rise of slapstick modernism; or, the birth of the uncool.
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Linking the literary, the lunatic, and the loud.
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