2008, ISBN: 0520255380

[EAN: 9780520255388], Neubuch, [PU: University of California Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company - h… More...

[EAN: 9780520255388], Neubuch, [PU: University of California Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. 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., Books<

2008, ISBN: 0520255380

[EAN: 9780520255388], Neubuch, [PU: University of California Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company - h… More...

[EAN: 9780520255388], Neubuch, [PU: University of California Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. 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., Books<

ISBN: 9780520255388

Paperback, [PU: University of California Press], Even as Keystone Film Company brought 'lowbrow' comic traditions to the screen, the studio played a key role in reformulating those tradit… More...

Paperback, [PU: University of California Press], Even as Keystone Film Company brought 'lowbrow' comic traditions to the screen, the studio played a key role in reformulating those traditions for a new, cross-class audience. This book explores the dimensions of that process, arguing for a fresh understanding of working-class cultural practices within early cinematic mass culture., Films, Cinema, Films, Cinema<