Hokum! : the early sound slapstick short and Depression-era mass culture /

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"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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: King, Rob, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
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.
Cultural studies.
Film, TV and radio.
Films, cinema.
Popular culture.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
The arts.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Comedy films.
United States.
slapstick.
short subjects.
sound.
american studies.
hokum.
mass culture.
depression-era culture.
comedy.
taste.
film studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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