Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / / Rob King.
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2017] ©[2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s). |
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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.