Christina G. Petersen, "The Freshman "
English | ISBN: 1138046396 | 2019 | 134 pages | EPUB | 826 KB
English | ISBN: 1138046396 | 2019 | 134 pages | EPUB | 826 KB
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
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