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oapen-20.500.12657-313962021-11-04T14:14:44Z Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture King, Rob slapstick short subjects sound american studies hokum mass culture depression-era culture comedy taste film studies Sound film bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCA Popular culture Hokum!, the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era, challenges 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. 2017-05-09 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:33:47Z 2020-04-01T13:33:47Z 2017 book 628610 OCN: 962409927 9780520963160;9780520963160;9780520963160 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31396 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 628610.pdf https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.28 University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.28 10.1525/luminos.28 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b 9780520963160;9780520963160;9780520963160 270 Oakland, California open access
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Hokum!, the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era, challenges 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.
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