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5. “From the Archives of Keystone Memory”: Slapstick and Re-membrance at Columbia Pictures’ Short-Subjects Department
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
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PART I. CONTEXTS
- 1. “The Cuckoo School”: Humor and Metropolitan Culture in 1920s America 21
- 2. “The Stigma of Slapstick”: The Short-Subject Industry and Its Imagined Public 55
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PART II. CASE HISTORIES
- 3. “The Spice of the Program”: Educational Pictures and the Small-Town Audience 95
- 4. “I Want Music Everywhere”: Music, Operetta, and Cultural Hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios 125
- 5. “From the Archives of Keystone Memory”: Slapstick and Re-membrance at Columbia Pictures’ Short-Subjects Department 157
- Coda: When Comedy Was King 191
- List of Abbreviations 201
- Notes 202
- Index 245
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
-
PART I. CONTEXTS
- 1. “The Cuckoo School”: Humor and Metropolitan Culture in 1920s America 21
- 2. “The Stigma of Slapstick”: The Short-Subject Industry and Its Imagined Public 55
-
PART II. CASE HISTORIES
- 3. “The Spice of the Program”: Educational Pictures and the Small-Town Audience 95
- 4. “I Want Music Everywhere”: Music, Operetta, and Cultural Hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios 125
- 5. “From the Archives of Keystone Memory”: Slapstick and Re-membrance at Columbia Pictures’ Short-Subjects Department 157
- Coda: When Comedy Was King 191
- List of Abbreviations 201
- Notes 202
- Index 245