The Fun Factory
King, Rob
| Autor: | King, Rob |
|---|---|
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 10.12.2008 |
| EAN: | 9780520255388 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 376 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | University of California Press |
| Untertitel: | The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture |
Produktinformationen "The Fun Factory"
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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