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Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350439153)
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xFrom cabaret songs inspired by Buster Keaton to Mickey Mouse's diagnosis as a "melo-maniac," Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed explores the extraordinary appeal of American slapstick, cartoon, and screwball comedies during and after Germany's Weimar Republic. Bridging two crucial sites of interwar modernity, Paul Flaig offers a fundamental reassessment of Weimar culture, Hollywood comedy, and their intertwined legacies.
Through a series of comic pairings-including Harold Lloyd and Curt Bois, Felix the Cat and psychotechnics-Flaig investigates the aesthetic, political and sexual forces that shaped Weimar Germany's fascination with American film comedies, as they were taken up and transformed by German filmmakers, philosophers, advertisers, artists, and politicians. Examining a wide range of sources-including films, manifestoes, arts journals, feuilletons, and trade press reports-he underscores the essential and diverse contributions of Weimar culture to our understanding of these comic laboratories of modernity.Author: Paul Flaig
ISBN-10: 1350439150
ISBN-13: 9781350439153
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2025
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d
By Paul Flaig
x 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 and Media Studies, Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, animation and Screen. He is co-director of the German Screen Studies Network.
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