A comprehensive reassessment of Weimar culture and Hollywood slapstick, cartoon, and screwball cinemas, highlighting the influence of American film comedies and their stars during Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933).
A comprehensive reassessment of Weimar culture and Hollywood slapstick, cartoon, and screwball cinemas, highlighting the influence of American film comedies and their stars during Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933).
Paul Flaig is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews, UK. He is the co-editor of New Silent Cinema (2015) and his writing has appeared in Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, and Screen.
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Introduction I: Charlie, Buster and Harold in Weimar: Slapstick between Mass Culture and the Avant-Garde Opening Act: Charlie's Shoes 1. The Tramp Re-functioned: On Brecht and Chaplin 2. 'Dada Buster': Technology, Fashion and Sensation from Slapstick Deadpan to the Weimar Avant-Garde 3. A German (Jewish and Queer) Harold Lloyd: Curt Bois and the White-Collar Worker II: Uncanny Things and Animate Adventures Opening Act: Dial M for Mickey 4. From Caligari to Disney: Animation Aesthetics, the Comic Uncanny and American Cartoon Humor Abroad 5. Felix the Psychotechnical Cat, or, the Usefulness of Comic Cartoons III: The Screwball Letters: The Frankfurt School meets 1930s Hollywood Sound Comedy Opening Act: The Marxist Brothers 6. Groucho, Harpo and Adorno: Culture becomes Comic in A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races 7. Slapstick Betrayed: Walter Benjamin and Capracorn Bibliography Index
Introduction I: Charlie, Buster and Harold in Weimar: Slapstick between Mass Culture and the Avant-Garde Opening Act: Charlie's Shoes 1. The Tramp Re-functioned: On Brecht and Chaplin 2. 'Dada Buster': Technology, Fashion and Sensation from Slapstick Deadpan to the Weimar Avant-Garde 3. A German (Jewish and Queer) Harold Lloyd: Curt Bois and the White-Collar Worker II: Uncanny Things and Animate Adventures Opening Act: Dial M for Mickey 4. From Caligari to Disney: Animation Aesthetics, the Comic Uncanny and American Cartoon Humor Abroad 5. Felix the Psychotechnical Cat, or, the Usefulness of Comic Cartoons III: The Screwball Letters: The Frankfurt School meets 1930s Hollywood Sound Comedy Opening Act: The Marxist Brothers 6. Groucho, Harpo and Adorno: Culture becomes Comic in A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races 7. Slapstick Betrayed: Walter Benjamin and Capracorn Bibliography Index
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