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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Format: | Elektronički e-knjiga |
Jezik: | engleski |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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