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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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"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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Film --- Cinéma --- Industrie cinématographique --- Missions --- Magie --- 1895-1929 --- Subventions --- Aspect politique --- Et le cinéma