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

by Christina G. Petersen

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Format Paperback / Softback
Book Series Cinema and Youth Cultures
ISBN-10 0367671816
ISBN-13 9780367671815
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 18th, 2020
Print length 122 Pages
Weight 250 grams
Product Classification: Films, cinema Cultural studies Popular culture Media studies Gender studies, gender groups
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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.

Before the advent of the teenager in the 1940s and the teenpic in the 1950s, The Freshman (Taylor and Newmeyer, 1925) represented 1920s college youth culture as an exclusive world of leisure to a mass audience. Starring popular slapstick comedian Harold Lloyd, The Freshman was a hit with audiences for its parody of contemporary conceptions of university life as an orgy of proms and football games, becoming the highest grossing comedy feature of the silent era. This book examines The Freshman 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; Lloyd’s use of slapstick to represent an embodied, youthful middle-class masculinity; and the film’s self-reflexive exploration of the conflict between individuality and conformity as an early entry in the youth film genre.

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