The Freshman: Comedy and Masculinity in 1920s Film and Youth Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138046399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 122 str.

Christina G. Petersen

Opis

This book examines The Freshman (Taylor and Newmeyer, 1925) from a number of perspectives, with a focus on the social, economic, and political context that led to the rise of campus culture as a distinct subculture and popular mass culture in 1920s America.

O autorze

Christina G. Petersen is Christian Nielsen associate professor of film studies at Eckerd College. She has published on identity and embodiment in American cinema, including essays on the origins of the youth film, the independent African American race film industry, international avant-garde cinema, and contemporary film exhibition technology.