Liminal Butlers: Discussing a Comic Stereotype and the Progression of Class Distinctions in America

This thesis will prove how the male domestic servant shows a conservative evolution of class freedom through early American films. As an individual thrust into a liminal sphere, these characters paradoxically become a character type for both keeping class-consciousness as well as breaking up notions...

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Main Author: Smith, Katie
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2007
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1286
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2285&context=etd