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Hokum!

The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture

Author: Rob King
Paperback: 254 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (2017)
Avg. Rating: [ Unrated ]
ISBN: 0520288119
In Print? Yes

The Three Stooges' contributions to 1930s slapstick comedy are mentioned throughout the book and focused on in the chapter "From the Archives of Keystone Memory: Slapstick and Re-Membrance at Columbia Pictures' Short Subjects Department."

From the back cover...

"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 studios 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 youth."


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