Slapstick Modernism

Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop

William Solomon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08394-5 (ISBN)

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Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary modernism throughout the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive expression in postwar literature, experimental film, and popular music. William Solomon charts the origins and evolution of what he calls slapstick modernism --a merging of artistic experimentation with the socially disruptive lunacy made by the likes of Charlie Chaplin. Romping through texts, films, and theory, Solomon embarks on an intellectual odyssey from the high modernism of Dos Passos and Williams to the late modernism of the Beats and Burroughs before a head-on crash into the raw power of punk rock. Throughout, he shows the links between the experimental writers and silent screen performers of the early century, and explores the potent cultural undertaking that drew inspiration from anarchical comedy after World War II.

William Solomon is an associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2018
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08394-6 / 0252083946
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08394-5 / 9780252083945
Zustand	Neuware