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  title info:
    title: Hokum!
    sub title: the early sound slapstick short and Depression-era mass culture
  name:
    name part: King, Rob
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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 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.
  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.
  note: Rob King.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Comedy films
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Comedy films
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PN1995.9.C55 K547 2017
  classification: 791.43/6170973
  identifier: 9780520288119
  identifier: 0520288114
  identifier: 9780520963160
  identifier: 2016049875
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161028
    record change date: 20170926120150.0
    record identifier: in00003870140