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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Fun Factory
• Subtitle: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
• Author: Rob King
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780520255388
• ISBN: 0520255380
• ID: 04617650
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. December 2008

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