Slapstick Modernism Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop

Name: Slapstick Modernism Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop
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ISBN: 9780252040245

ISBN-10: 0252040244

ISBN-13: 9780252040245

Edition: 2016

Authors: William Solomon

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Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls and nyuk-nyuks 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 a harum-scarum intellectual odyssey from high modernism to the late modernism of the Beats and Burroughs before a head-on crash into the raw power of punk rock.…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 5/16/2016
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English