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

• Главный автор: King, Rob (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Oakland, California University of California Press 2017
• Предметы: The arts; Films, cinema; Popular culture; slapstick; short subjects; sound; american studies; hokum; mass culture; depression-era culture; comedy; taste; film studies; Sound film
• Online-ссылка: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Итог

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.

Объем

1 electronic resource (270 p.)

ISBN

luminos.28
9780520963160;9780520963160;9780520963160

Доступ

Open Access