Social, cultural and political contexts.

• 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.