Farce in the Technologic World
FAIN: FR-10105-78
Peter F. Parshall
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN 47803-3920)
To study the various forms of farce in the twentieth century, particularly as they relate to shifting value systems. Farce serves as a barometer of the problem of shifting values, since it can survive more easily in a value vacuum than can social comedy, which is a normative form.