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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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- "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.