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Author Horrall, Andrew, author.

Title Inventing the cave man : from Darwin to the Flintstones / Andrew Horrall.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Studies in Popular Culture
Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Mass culture: the Victorian world picture -- Darwin, Du Chaillu and Mr Gorilla: the lions of the season -- The parents of Adam and Eve: missing links -- Antediluvian pictorial fun: E. T. Reed and the prehistoric peeps -- He of the auburn locks: George Robey, the Edwardian cave man -- Cave dwellers of Flanders: the First World War -- Modern times: the Victorian cave man's long afterlife -- Conclusion
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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Subject History in popular culture -- Great Britain.
Prehistoric peoples in literature.
Prehistoric peoples in motion pictures.
Prehistoric peoples on television.
Cave dwellers in art.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Cave dwellers in art. (OCoLC)fst00849886
History in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01903473
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Prehistoric peoples in literature. (OCoLC)fst01075254
Prehistoric peoples in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01904339
Prehistoric peoples on television. (OCoLC)fst01737353
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Höhlenmensch.
Rezeption.
Massenkultur.
Großbritannien.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Other Form: Print version: Horrall, Andrew. Inventing the cave man. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 1526113848 9781526113849 (DLC) 2017275422 (OCoLC)974868754
ISBN 9781526113870 (electronic book)
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