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

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"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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Päätekijä: King, Rob, 1975- (Tekijä)
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Sarja:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Comedy films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
The arts.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Popular culture.
Films, cinema.
Film, TV and radio.
Cultural studies.
Films comiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Films comiques > Histoire et critique.
Comedy films > United States > History > 20th century.
Comedy films > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • "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.

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