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100 1 _aKing, Rob,
_eauthor
245 0 _aHokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture
264 1 _aOakland, California
_bUniversity of California Press
_c2017
300 _a1 online resource (270 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
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520 _aHokum!, 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.
653 _aAmerican Studies
653 _aHokum
653 _aShort Subjects
653 _aSlapstick
653 _aSound
856 _uhttps://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
942 _cE-BOOK
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