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The Fun Factory The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
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From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Companyhome of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beautiesmade 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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520255371 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 16 Dec 2008 |
DEWEY: | 791.430973 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 376 |
Weight: | 685g |
Height: | 235mm |
Width: | 159mm |
Spine width: | 28mm |