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The fun factory : the keystone film company and the emergence of mass culture
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ISBN: 9780520255371 9780520255388 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California press,


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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture
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ISBN: 0520963164 0520288114 9780520963160 9780520288119 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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"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.


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Slapstick comedy
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ISBN: 9780415801782 9780415801799 9780203876763 0415801788 0415801796 9781135966188 9781135966225 9781135966232 Year: 2010 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Introduction : restoring slapstick to the historiography of American film / Tom Paulus and Rob King -##Originality and adaptation. The good thieves : on the origins of situation comedy in the British music hall / Bryony Dixon ; D.W. Griffith shapes slapstick / Barry Salt ; Genre parody and comedic burlesque : Keystone's meta-cinematic satires / Simon Joyce ; Both sides of the camera : Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's evolution at Keystone / Joanna E. Rapf ; Mud pies and tears : little Mary's funny side / Anke Brouwers -##Mechanics and modernity. Mack Sennett vs. Henry Ford / Eileen Bowser ; "Uproarious inventions" : the Keystone Film Company, modernity, and the art of the motor / Rob King ; Mechanisms of laughter : the devices of slapstick / Tom Gunning ; Slapstick skyscrapers : an architecture of attractions / Steven Jacobs ; California slapstick revisited / Charles Wolfe -##Bodies and performance. Dancing of fire and water : Charlot and L'esprit nouveau / Amy Sargeant ; Splashes of fun and beauty : Mack Sennett's bathing beauties / Hilde D'Haeyere ; Back to the "slap" : slapstick's hyperbolic gesture and the rhetoric of violence / Muriel Andrin ; The art of imitation : the originality of Charlie Chaplin and other moving-image myths / Jennifer M. Bean.


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The Oxford handbook of silent cinema
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ISBN: 9780190496692 019049669X Year: 2024 Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press,

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"The historiography of silent cinema has long been the leading edge of scholarly innovation in film history. The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema brings that scholarship up to date with thirty-four chapters informed by new perspectives in film and media studies and the humanities. Featuring contributions by both established and up-and-coming scholars, the volume is arranged around a series of broad topics: the "invention" of cinema as both technology and medium; the intermedial development of film aesthetics and genres; non-theatrical and non-commercial uses of cinema; the political economy of Hollywood mass culture; film and global modernities; and silent cinema's publics and counter-publics. Unlike other anthologies of this nature, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is more than just a collection of disparate new work. Taken as a whole, the essays gathered here signal an impulse to rethink silent film history, narrowly conceived, as instead a form of transmedial history attuned to the relations amongst media forms and technologies, artistic traditions and practices, and economic and governmental institutions. The volume takes stock of what the history of silent cinema has been, but it also introduces agendas intended to shape new work for the future"--

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Early cinema and the "national"
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ISBN: 9780861966899 0861966899 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Barnet, Herts : Bloomington : John Libbey Indiana University Press,

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Beyond the screen : institutions, networks and publics of early cinema
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ISBN: 9780861967032 0861969138 9780861969135 0861967038 0253006597 Year: 2012 Publisher: Eastleigh : John Libbey,

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American Cinema of the 1910s
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ISBN: 9786612033599 128203359X 1780347367 0813546540 9780813546544 0813544440 0813544459 9780813544441 9780813544458 6612033592 9781780347363 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood. The essays in American Cinema of the 1910's explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D. W. Griffith's unrivaled one-reelers. By mid-decade, multi-reel feature films were profoundly reshaping the industry and deluxe theaters were built to attract the broadest possible audience. Stars like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks became vitally important and companies began writing high-profile contracts to secure them. With the outbreak of World War I, the political, economic, and industrial groundwork was laid for American cinema's global dominance. By the end of the decade, filmmaking had become a true industry, complete with vertical integration, efficient specialization and standardization of practices, and self-regulatory agencies.


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Flickers of Desire

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