TY  - BOOK
AU  - King, Rob
AB  - Hokum!, the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era, challenges the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition. Author Rob King explores the slapstick short’s Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture. Each chapter is grounded in case studies of comedians and comic teams, including the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Robert Benchley. The book also examines how the past legacy of silent-era slapstick was subsequently reimagined as part of a nostalgic mythology of Hollywood’s youth.
DO  - 10.1525/luminos.28
ID  - OAPEN ID: 628610
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 962409927
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31396
KW  - slapstick
KW  - short subjects
KW  - sound
KW  - american studies
KW  - hokum
KW  - mass culture
KW  - depression-era culture
KW  - comedy
KW  - taste
KW  - film studies
KW  - Sound film
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31396/1/628610.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31396/1/628610.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31396/1/628610.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31773
PB  - University of California Press
PP  - Oakland, California
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9780520963160;9780520963160;9780520963160
TI  - Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culturenull
ER  - 
