Books by Alan Bilton

This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way that foreshadows the concerns of our own celebrity-obsessed consumer culture.

Contemporary American Fiction introduces the work of a range of American authors, all of whom can be said to engage with postmodernism.