Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture - Couverture souple

King, Rob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520255380 ISBN 13 : 9780520255388

Editeur : University of California Press, 2008

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rob King is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and History at the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520255380
• ISBN 13: 9780520255388
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 374
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