Slapstick Modernism : Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop
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| Title: | Slapstick Modernism : Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | William Solomon |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Literature, Experimental--United States--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--United States--History, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Motion pictures and literature--United States, Silent films--United States--History and criticism |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780252040245 9780252083945 9780252098468 |
