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By Michael North

ISBN-10: 019538122X

ISBN-13: 9780195381221

ISBN-10: 0195381238

ISBN-13: 9780195381238

during this most modern addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & tradition sequence, well known modernist pupil Michael North poses primary questions on the connection among modernity and comedian shape in movie, animation, the visible arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural background that spans the full 20th century, displaying how alterations wrought through industrialization have ceaselessly altered the comedian mode. With prepared analyses, North examines the paintings of quite a lot of artists--including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, and David Foster Wallace--to express the inventive and unconventional methods the routinization of commercial society has been explored in a large array of cultural types. all through, North argues that glossy writers and artists stumbled on whatever inherently comedian in new reports of repetition linked to, enforced via, and made inevitable by way of the computing device age. finally, this wealthy, tightly centred learn deals a brand new lens for knowing the devlopment of comedic buildings in periods of huge social, political, and cultural swap to bare how the unique promise of recent existence could be extracted from its useful disappointment.

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