Description
About the Author
Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism, Reading 1922, and Camera Works, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Award in 2006.
Reviews
Machine-Age Comedy makes a strong, original historical argument about the cultural ramifications of modern technologies; it intervenes sharply and persuasively in the field of humor theory; and it offers, by way of support for its historical and theoretical arguments, a series of dazzling, witty, and clear-headed readings of modernist films and novels. It's a terrific book. * James English, University of Pennsylvania *
Michael North is one of our most original and insightful interpreters of modernist culture. 'Analyses of humor are not usually very funny,' the reader is warned at the outset, but North's readings and interpretations succeed in being consistently vivid, surprising and illuminating. * Laura Marcus, University of Edinburgh *
Book Information
ISBN 9780195381221
Author Michael North
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 508g
Dimensions(mm) 243mm * 164mm * 19mm