The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
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- Synopsis
- Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin?*BR**BR*Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy?*BR**BR*And why did Lenin love circus clowns?*BR**BR*The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781783717743
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780745336015, 9781783717736
- Publisher:
- Pluto Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/11/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Owen Hatherley
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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