Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
10.12.2008
Herausgeber
Rob KingVerlag
De GruyterSeitenzahl
376
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.4 cm
Gewicht
590 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-520-25538-8
From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company--home of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties--made an indelible mark on American popular culture with its high-energy comic shorts. Even as Keystone brought "lowbrow" comic traditions to the screen, the studio played a key role in reformulating those traditions for a new, cross-class audience. In The Fun Factory, Rob King explores the dimensions of that process, arguing for a new understanding of working-class cultural practices within early cinematic mass culture. He shows how Keystone fashioned a style of film comedy from the roughhouse humor of cheap theater, pioneering modes of representation that satirized film industry attempts at uplift. Interdisciplinary in its approach, The Fun Factory offers a unique studio history that views the changing politics of early film culture through the sociology of laughter.
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