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Machine-Age Comedy (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,198
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Machine-Age Comedy (Paperback): Michael North

Machine-Age Comedy (Paperback)

Michael North

Series: Modernist Literature & Culture

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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 devlopment 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.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Modernist Literature & Culture
Release date: December 2008
First published: December 2008
Authors: Michael North (Professor of English)
Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538123-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
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LSN: 0-19-538123-8
Barcode: 9780195381238

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