The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass CultureUniversity of California Press, 10 de des. 2008 - 376 pàgines 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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Funny Germans and Funny Drunks Clowns Class and Ethnicity at Keystone 19131915 | 65 |
The Impossible Attained Tillies Punctured Romance and the Challenge of FeatureLength Slapstick 19141915 | 105 |
Made for the Masses with an Appeal to the Classes Keystone the Triangle Film Corporation and the Failure of Highbrow Film Culture 19151917 | 143 |
Uproarious Inventions Keystone Modernity and the Machine 19151917 | 180 |
From Diving Venus to Bathing Beauties Reification and Feminine Spectacle 19161917 | 210 |
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The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture Rob King Previsualització limitada - 2008 |
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