Inventing the cave man : from Darwin to the Flintstones /

Inventing the cave man : from Darwin to the Flintstones /

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Author / Creator:	Horrall, Andrew, author.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in Popular Culture Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
Subject:	History in popular culture -- Great Britain. Prehistoric peoples in literature. Prehistoric peoples in motion pictures. Prehistoric peoples on television. Cave dwellers in art. Cave dwellers in art. History in popular culture. Intellectual life. Prehistoric peoples in literature. Prehistoric peoples in motion pictures. Prehistoric peoples on television. Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Great Britain.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11292050

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ISBN:	9781526113849 1526113848
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.
Summary:	Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture. Cave men are an appealing way to explore and understand Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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