Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture /

"Hokum! is the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition, author Rob King explores the slapstick short's Depression-era development against a backdrop of cha...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: King, Rob, 1975- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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جدول المحتويات:
  • "The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America
  • "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public
  • "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience
  • "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios
  • "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department
  • Coda : when comedy was king.