Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop

Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop

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Solomon William
University of Illinois Press
EAN: 9780252040245
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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.

EAN 9780252040245
ISBN 0252040244
Binding Hardback
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Publication date May 16, 2016
Pages 272
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152 x 23
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Solomon William