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The fun factory
Rob King
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Rob King is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and History at the University of Toronto.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780520255388
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of California Press, (16 December 2008)
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 590 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 25 mm
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