Maszyna Chaplina, czyli amerykanizm w sowieckiej rosji
The Chaplin Machine, Or Americanism In Soviet Russia

Summary/Abstract: Book review of Owen Hatherley’s “The Chaplin Machine. Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist AvantGarde” (2016). Strożek discusses the main ideas of Hatherley’s work, who, using the term “Chaplin (slapstick) Machine (taylorism-fordism)” examines the visions of Americanism and American dream in the left-wing avant-garde culture, paying attention to the importance of how America was imagined in the shaping of a new proletarian culture in a constructive spirit. The reviewer shows how in a consistent manner the British author analyses the relationship between two great triads: slapstick – taylorism-fordism – americanism = circus – communism – constructivism, drawing interesting links between the American and the Russian elements in the area of new thinking about culture of the 1920s and 1930s.

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