Cover Image of Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture

Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture

Rob King

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270 Pages
English
PDF

Year
2017
ISBN-13
9780520963160

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About This Book

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... (see more details)

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