Main entry:

Hatherley, Owen, author.

Title & Author:

The Chaplin machine : slapstick, Fordism and the Communist avant-garde / Owen Hatherley.

Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2016.

Description:

vii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 197-222) and index.
Introduction: Americanism and Fordism -- and Chaplinism -- 1. Constructing the Chaplin Machine: The Constructivist International Encounters the American Comedians -- 2. Red Clowns to the Rescue: Biomechanics in Film, Factory and Circus -- 3. No Rococo Palace for Buster Keaton: Architectures of Americanism -- 4. The Rhythm of Socialist Construction: Soviet Sound Film and the Creation of an Industrial Economy -- Conclusion: Life is Getting Jollier, Comrades!

Summary:

"Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and, in particular, 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."--Publisher.

Resources:
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of contents

ISBN:

0745336019
9780745336015 (hardback)
9780745336114
0745336116
9781783717743 (eBook)
9781783717736 (PDF)
9781783717750 (Kindle eBook)

Subject:

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 Influence.
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
Chaplin, Charlie 1889-1977
Motion pictures Soviet Union History.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Soviet Union.
Fordism.
Cinéma URSS Histoire.
Fordisme.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Motion pictures.
Slapstick
Rezeption
Experimentalfilm
Fordismus
American wit and humor Influence
Soviet Union.
Sowjetunion

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302218
Call No.: BIB 248422
Status: Available