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

Resumen del libro

Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and, in particular, its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.

Biografía del autor

Escritor y periodista británico. Escribe principalmente sobre arquitectura, política y cultura. Se doctoró con una tesis sobre el constructivismo y el americanismo. En enero de 2019, Hatherley se incorporó a la revista Tribune como editor de su nueva sección de Cultura. Ha publicado los libros 'Militant modernismo', 'A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain', 'Trans-Europe Express' y 'The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space'. Ha mantenido tres blogs, Sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy, The Measures Taken y Kino Fist. Publica en diversos medios.