The Fun Factory : The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture Paperback / softback
by Rob King
Paperback / softback
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From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company - home of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties - made 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, 40 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:10/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780520255388
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, 40 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:10/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780520255388