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

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Hlavní autor: King, Rob
Médium: Online
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: University of California Press 2021
Témata:
slapstick
short subjects
sound
american studies
hokum
mass culture
depression-era culture
comedy
taste
film studies
Sound film
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
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Shrnutí: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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