How Long to Read The Last Laugh

How Long Does it Take to Read The Last Laugh?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 51 minutes to read The Last Laugh by Samuel Frederick

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A penetrating new reading of Murnau's classic silent film that shows its transitional status, both historically and stylistically, while emphasizing its innovative camerawork and the ethical stakes of its story. An undisputed masterpiece of silent cinema, F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) stars the larger-than-life Emil Jannings as a proud hotel porter who is demoted to lowly washroom attendant. One worker's misfortune becomes a tragic turning point in a social drama as much about the struggling Weimar Republic, which had just overcome several years of social, political, and economic instability, as about its working-class citizens. At once clinging to the symbols of the old order while helplessly thrust into an unforgiving modern world, Jannings's fallen porter embodies the contradictions of this transitional moment for the young democracy. Samuel Frederick shows us that Murnau's film is similarly transitional: born at the crossroads between the Expressionist style of the early 1920s and the emerging aesthetics of New Objectivity, it is both soberly realistic and oneirically distorted. With only one intertitle, The Last Laugh's flow of images is complemented by cinematographer Karl Freund's innovative mobile camera, which, "unchained" from the tripod, swims effortlessly through the film's different urban spaces. Here, inanimate objects become charged with potency and architecture is animated, conveying both allure and danger. Frederick's incisive analysis of the film foregrounds the visual dynamism of its technological and aesthetic experimentation while also pursuing the ethical implications of its central figure's downfall.

How long is The Last Laugh?

The Last Laugh by Samuel Frederick is 111 pages long, and a total of 27,861 words.

This makes it 37% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Last Laugh Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 32 minutes to read The Last Laugh aloud.

What Reading Level is The Last Laugh?

The Last Laugh is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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