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Journal Article
A Bedpan of Poop: The Influence of Silent Screen Comedy on Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer
2019
Overview
The influence of film technique on John Dos Passos's Manhattan
Transfer is well established. However, there is another aspect of
silent era cinema that is highly present in the novel yet largely overlooked:
slapstick. As much as any other contemporaneous film genre, slapstick shared
with Dos Passos a skepticism about the controlling nature of modern urban
society. A close comparison of the novel and the films of Harold Lloyd and
Charlie Chaplin, the era's two most popular film stars, furthers our
understanding of how Dos Passos sought inspiration in popular entertainment to
make his critique of modernity, while also revealing a comic sensibility at work
in a novel more frequently viewed through the lens of tragedy.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
/ Apathy
/ Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977)
/ Comedies
/ Comedy
/ Dos Passos, John (1896-1970)
/ Farces
/ Genre
/ Ideology
/ Novels
/ Society
