Chaplin Machine - Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde

Owen Hatherley unearths the hidden history of Soviet film, art and architecture, revealing its inspiration in the slapstick of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. What did it mean for socialists to combine the ideas of Chaplin and Henry Ford? The Chaplin Machine is a bold, new interpretation of twentieth-century art history.

About the author

Owen Hatherley is an architecture and culture critic whose writings have spanned Soviet Constructivism, to the merits of Coventry train station. His acerbic wit and sense for 'place' can be found in the pages of Guardian and Architects Journal. He is the author of numerous books on architecture and culture, including The Chaplin Machine (Pluto Press, 2016), Trans-Europe Express (Penguin, 2017), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010) and Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009).

Summary

The tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century, highlighting the unlikely intersections of East and West

Product details

• Authors: Owen Hatherley, Owen (Freelance) Hatherley, Hatherley Owen
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2016
• EAN: 9780745336015
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3601-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Architecture, Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, ART / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, The arts: general topics