Social, cultural and political contexts.

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    Tui Bryant

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    • Consumerist society of 1920s
    • Rise in new technologies
    • Keatons fascination with the workings of mechanical objects is shown strongly in TS. Reflects the rise of new industries and developing consumer culture.
    • Mans relationship with new examples of innovation and technology
    • House is a refrence to comic illustrations by American illustrator Rube Goldberg
    • Rube Goldberg = drew characters surrounded by crazy contraptions as a comment on the ways that devices that were designed to improve life made it more confusing.
    • The crazy contraptions act as a satirical comment the innovative practicality of the inventive adaption of normal household items
    • Expressionism?
      The household technologies act as a exaggerated version of reality.