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

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: King, Rob, 1975- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2017]
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Comedy films > United States > History > 20th century.
Comedy films > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430349506719
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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