| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture. Each chapter is grounded in case studies of comedians and comic teams, including the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Robert Benchley. The book also examines how the past legacy of silent-era slapstick was subsequently reimagined as part of a nostalgic mythology of Hollywood's youth"--Provided by publisher |
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slapstick |
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short subjects |
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sound |
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american studies |
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hokum |
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mass culture |
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depression-era culture |
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comedy |
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taste |
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film studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- History and criticism
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Comedy films -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Cultural studies.
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Film, TV and radio.
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Films, cinema.
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Popular culture.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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The arts.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Comedy films
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016052138 |
| ISBN |
9780520963160 |
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0520963164 |
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0520288114 |
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9780520288119 |
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