The fun factory : the Keystone Film Company and the emergence of mass culture / / Rob King [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248199903316
• Autore: King Rob <1975->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-520-25538-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 355 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 791.43/0973
• Soggetti: Electronic books
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-313) and index.; Includes filmography: p. 315-341.
• Nota di contenuto: "The Fun Factory": Class, Comedy, and Popular Culture, 1912-1914 -- "Funny Germans" and "Funny Drunks": Clowns, Class, and Ethnicity at Keystone, 1913-1915 -- "The Impossible Attained!" Tillie's Punctured Romance and the Challenge of Feature-Length Slapstick, 1914-1915 -- "Made for the Masses with an Appeal to the Classes": Keystone, the Triangle Film Corporation, and the Failure of Highbrow Film Culture, 1915-1917 -- "Uproarious Inventions": Keystone, Modernity, and the Machine, 1915-1917 -- From "Diving Venus" to "Bathing Beauties": Reification and Feminine Spectacle, 1916-1917.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 wit its high-energy comic-shorts."--Page 4 of cover.