Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the origins of slapstick modernism
  • 1920s. The work of art in the age of mechanical transportation
  • The politics and poetics of attraction I: Dos Passos
  • The politics and poetics of attraction II: Harold Lloyd's "thrill" films
  • Becoming-child: Harry Langdon
  • 1930s. The emergence of slapstick modernism
  • Theoretical interlude: Benjamin and the question concerning second technology
  • 1950s-1960s. The rise of slapstick modernism; or, the birth of the uncool.