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Rob King
Hokum! [EPUB ebook]
The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture

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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 chan...

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Table of Content

List of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. CONTEXTS
1. “The Cuckoo School”: Humor and Metropolitan Culture in 1920s Americ...

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Rob King is Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and author of the award-winning The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emerg...

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 270 ● ISBN 9780520963160 ● File size 8.3 MB ● Publisher University of California Press ● Published 2017 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5512165 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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