{"product_id":"hokum-the-early-sound-slapstick-short-and-depressionera-mass-culture-9780520288119","title":"Hokum The Early Sound Slapstick Short and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTakes a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition, the author explores the slapstick short's Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"King thus explores a series of critical questions about how cultural forms dwindle and reemerge... his work points toward a new avenue of research worth looking into when considering alternative constructions of American film history; instead of breaking down the myths that haunt much of film scholarship, the development of these very myths may reveal more about cultural consciousness.\" * Film Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"King’s approach is thoroughly revisionist, a genre history as grounded in the archive and the trade press as it is in the screening room, one that seeks to dramatically expand which films matter. ... \u003ci\u003eHokum!\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph! King demonstrates what happens in an era of expanded access to archival texts that are now more widely available on DVD, the digitization of trade press reports, and the ongoing refinement of film historiography. At the risk of ending on an unapologetically bad pun, comedy has a new King. \" * Journal for Cinema and Media Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I. CONTEXTS\u003cbr\u003e 1. “The Cuckoo School”: Humor and Metropolitan Culture in 1920s America\u003cbr\u003e 2. “The Stigma of Slapstick”: The Short-Subject Industry and Its Imagined Public\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART II. CASE HISTORIES\u003cbr\u003e 3. “The Spice of the Program”: Educational Pictures and the Small-Town Audience\u003cbr\u003e 4. “I Want Music Everywhere”: Music, Operetta, and Cultural Hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios\u003cbr\u003e 5. “From the Archives of Keystone Memory”: Slapstick and Re-membrance at Columbia Pictures’ Short-Subjects Department\u003cbr\u003e Coda: When Comedy Was King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402882523479,"sku":"9780520288119","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520288119.jpg?v=1730481763","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hokum-the-early-sound-slapstick-short-and-depressionera-mass-culture-9780520288119","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}