The Fun Factory - The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
The Keystone Film Company And The Emergence Of Mass Culture
- Editore:
University of California Press
- EAN:
9780520255388
- ISBN:
0520255380
- Pagine:
- 336
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Fun Factory - The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
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.
