TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Rob
TI  - Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Hokum
KW  - Short Subjects
KW  - Slapstick
KW  - Sound
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31396/1/628610.pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.28http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31396
ER  -