From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Companyhome of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beautiesmade 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...
From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Companyhome of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beautiesmade an indelibl...
