Machine-Age Comedy
Machine-Age Comedy
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机器时代喜剧
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2008
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M. North
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在牛津大学现代主义文学与文化系列的最新补充中，著名的现代主义学者迈克尔·诺斯提出了关于现代性与电影，动画，视觉艺术和文学中的喜剧形式之间关系的基本问题。《机器时代喜剧》生动地构建了一部跨越整个二十世纪的文化史，展示了工业化带来的变化如何永远改变了喜剧模式。通过敏锐的分析，诺斯考察了各种艺术家的作品-包括查理卓别林，沃尔特迪士尼，马塞尔杜尚，塞缪尔贝克特和大卫福斯特华莱士-展示了工业社会的非传统化的创造性和非传统的方式已经在广泛的文化形式中进行了探索。在整个过程中，诺斯认为，现代作家和艺术家在与机器时代相关的、被机器时代强制执行的、不可避免的重复的新体验中发现了一些本质上的喜剧性。最后，这个丰富的，紧紧集中的研究提供了一个新的透镜，了解在大规模的社会，政治和文化变革时期的喜剧结构的发展，揭示如何现代生活的原始承诺可以从其实际的失望提取。
In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen analyses, North examines the work of a wide range of artists - including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, and David Foster Wallace - to show the creative and unconventional ways the routinization of industrial society has been explored in a broad array of cultural forms. Throughout, North argues that modern writers and artists found something inherently comic in new experiences of repetition associated with, enforced by, and made inevitable by the machine age. Ultimately, this rich, tightly focused study offers a new lens for understanding the devlopment of comedic structures during periods of massive social, political, and cultural change to reveal how the original promise of modern life can be extracted from its practical disappointment.