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

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hokum! is the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: King, Rob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]
Temas:
1900-1999
Comedy films > History and criticism.
Comedy films > United States > History > 20th century.
Films comiques > Histoire et critique.
Films comiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Comedy films.
United States.
1920 american comedy.
20th century comedians.
20th century comedy teams.
cinematography.
comedy films.
comedy movies.
comic movies.
depression era film.
early 20th century cinema.
early sound era.
early sound slapstick.
film and tv.
film industry.
film studies.
history of comedy.
history of film.
hokum.
laurel and hardy.
media studies.
popular culture.
robert benchley.
silent era slapstick.
slapstick.
stage slang comedy.
three stooges.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. CONTEXTS
  • 1. "The Cuckoo School": Humor and Metropolitan Culture in 1920s America
  • 2. "The Stigma of Slapstick": The Short-Subject Industry and Its Imagined Public
  • PART II. CASE HISTORIES
  • 3. "The Spice of the Program": Educational Pictures and the Small-Town Audience
  • 4. "I Want Music Everywhere": Music, Operetta, and Cultural Hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios
  • 5. "From the Archives of Keystone Memory": Slapstick and Re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' Short-Subjects Department
  • Coda: When Comedy Was King
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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