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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Main Author: King, Rob (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: University of California Press 2017
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