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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Tác giả chính: King, Rob, 1975- (Tác giả)
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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