Machine-Age Comedy

Name: Machine-Age Comedy
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ISBN: 9780195381221

ISBN-10: 019538122X

ISBN-13: 9780195381221

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael North

List price: $105.00

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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…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/19/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English







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