The Fun Factory

The Fun Factory
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 052094285X
ISBN-13 : 9780520942851
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Book Synopsis The Fun Factory by : Rob King

Download or read book The Fun Factory written by Rob King and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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