Abstract
In attempting to translate contemporary political atmospheres, cineasts such as Claude Lelouch in France, and Woody Allen in the U.S., seem to be turning more and more towards slapstick, adapting to today's situation an approach that was brilliantly employed in the film comedies of the twenties and thirties, particularly by Chaplin and the Marx Brothers.2 Slapstick was used then to bring to our attention the impact of mechaniza- tion, its dehumanizing effects and the absurdities it lends itself to. A new form evolved that encompassed the feeling of estrangement felt at the time, the nature of the apparent changes as well as apprehensions regard- ing the future.
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