Slapstick Modernism

William Solomon

earliest edition we have, 2016 University of Illinois Press, 2018 272 pages

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 sociall...

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Slapstick Modernism edition · 2018 · University of Illinois Press · 272 pages · 9780252083945
Slapstick Modernism edition · 2016 · University of Illinois Press · 264 pages · 9780252098468
Slapstick Modernism edition · 2016 · University of Illinois Press · 272 pages · 9780252040245

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