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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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"A searching and briskly authoritative history."--National Post "[An] ambitious and innovative study [and] an important contribution... A wonderful analysis of the historical and cultural complexity of this key moment of modernity and one of its major industries. [It] should be compulsory to all scholars in the field."--Leonardo Reviews "Essential reading for all those film historians not necessarily interested in slapstick comedy."--Screening the Past "This studio history ... offers insights on the politics of early filmmaking through the sociology of laughter."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly
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Rob King is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and History at the University of Toronto.
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0520255372
- ISBN 13 9780520255371
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
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