Inventing the Cave Man : From Darwin to the Flintstones
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1526113848
ISBN-13
9781526113849
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2017
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
512 grams
Dimensions
24.00 x 16.10 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
HistoriographyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Social & cultural historyEarly man
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An extensively researched account of the history of the cave man character in modern popular culture, tracing its roots back to Victorian Britain -- .
Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture.
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