The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley

The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde

Owen Hatherley

200 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction politics reflective slow-paced
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There was something uncanny about Charlie Chaplin. His fellow actors spoke of him as inhuman—automaton-like. His stiff, comic movements could be viewed as an attempt to parody the newly developed production lines of Henry Ford’s revolutionary fact...

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