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Author:

King, Rob, 1975-

Title:

The fun factory : the Keystone Film Company and the emergence of mass culture / Rob King.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xv, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Keystone Film Company.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-313), filmography (p. 315-341), and index.

Contents:

"The Fun Factory": Class, Comedy, and Popular Culture, 1912-1914 -- "Funny Germans" and "Funny Drunks": Clowns, Class, and Ethnicity at Keystone, 1913-1915 -- "The Impossible Attained!" Tillie's Punctured Romance and the Challenge of Feature-Length Slapstick, 1914-1915 -- "Made for the Masses with an Appeal to the Classes": Keystone, the Triangle Film Corporation, and the Failure of Highbrow Film Culture, 1915-1917 -- "Uproarious Inventions": Keystone, Modernity, and the Machine, 1915-1917 -- From "Diving Venus" to "Bathing Beauties": Reification and Feminine Spectacle, 1916-1917.

ISBN:

0520255380 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520255388 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520255372 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520255371 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)253839189

LCCN:

2008039252

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)