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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"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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Insurgent Testimonies : Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / by Rizzuto, Nicole M.

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Reading Death in Ancient Rome / by Erasmo, Mario

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Telling the Truth : The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction / by Foley, Barbara, 1948-

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Post-colonial Chinese literatures in Singapore and Malaysia by Wong, Yoon-wah

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Disturbing the peace Black culture and the police power after slavery / by Wagner, Bryan

Table of Contents: “…The Black tradition from Ida B. Wells to Robert Charles -- The strange career of bras-coupé -- Uncle Remus and the Atlanta Police Department -- The Black tradition from George W. …”
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