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02510aam a2200349 i 4500 001 09E8B8A8621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 161028t20172017caua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016049875 020 $a 0520288114 020 $a 9780520288119 035 $a (OCoLC)961310959 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d CUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9 C55 K547 2017 100 1 $a King, Rob, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Hokum! : $b the early sound slapstick short and Depression-era mass culture / $c Rob King. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xiii, 253 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-244) and index. 520 $a "Hokum! is the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging 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"--Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a "The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king. 650 0 $a Comedy films $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Comedy films $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a King, Rob, 1975- $t Hokum! $d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] $z 9780520963160 $w (DLC) 2016052138 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180120014730.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003031954.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=09E8B8A8621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search