Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture
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 f...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2017
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
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