Machine-age comedy / Michael North.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

North, Michael, 1951- author.

Series:

Modernist literature & culture.

Oxford scholarship online.

Modernist literature & culture

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comedy films--History and criticism.

Comedy films.

Comedy--History and criticism.

Comedy.

Comic, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword; Contents; Introduction; PART I; 1. Camera Men; 2. Mickey's Mechanical Man; 3. Goldberg Variations; PART II; 4. Wyndham Lewis, Soldier of Humor; 5. Beckett's Machinations; 6. A More Than Infinite Jest; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611925666

9780190452339

0190452331

9780197725047

019772504X

9781281925664

1281925667

9780199700981

0199700982

OCLC:

476242925