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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Origins of Slapstick Modernism
Part I: 1920s
1. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Transportation
2. The Politics and Poetics of Attraction I: Dos Passos
3. The Politics and Poetics of Attraction II: Harold Lloyd’s “Thrill” Films
4. Becoming-Child: Harry Langdon
Part II: 1930s
5. The Emergence of Slapstick Modernism
Theoretical Interlude: Benjamin and the Question Concerning Second Technology
Part III: 1950s–1960s
6. The Rise of Slapstick Modernism; or, the Birth of the Uncool
Notes
Works Cited
Index