TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Rob
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Hokum! : : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / 
SN  - 9780520963160
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Comedy films
KW  - fast
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Film & Video
KW  - History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - The arts
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Films, cinema
KW  - Film, TV and radio
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Films comiques
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - "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; Open Access
N2  - "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"--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63378/
ER  -