The Fun Factory

Author : Rob King
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520255380
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fun Factory written by Rob King and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tim Walsh
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811864459
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wham-O Super-Book written by Tim Walsh and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wham-O's irresistible toys practically define childhood for an entire generation. The Frisbee, Hula Hoop, SuperBall, Slip 'N Slide, Silly String, and Hacky Sack are all cherished companions that brought kids together and still enjoy an enduring popularity today. Super-Book ("the most fantastic book ever created by science") showcases these amazing toys and a wide array of entertaining and downright odd playthings dreamed up by a company started by two childhood friends. Released in time for the 60th anniversary of Wham-O and featuring an engaging history of each plaything, colorful vintage packaging and ads, as well as photographs of the toys, this boisterous book is sure to inspire nostalgia and a trip to the nearest park, Frisbee in hand.

Author : Chris England
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910400234
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fun Factory written by Chris England and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is set in the golden decade before the Great War, when the music halls were the people's entertainment, before radio, television or cinema and bigger than all of them. The biggest draw of the day was entrepreneur Fred Karno, whose colossal comedy companies toured the country bringing laughter, slapstick, excitement and, above all, spectacle to the music hall stage. Arthur Dandoe is a young comedian trying to make his way up the hierarchy of the Fred Karno company. Along the way he develops a bitter professional and romantic rivalry with another ruthlessly ambitious performer; a young man destined to become the most celebrated on the planet - Charlie Chaplin.

Author : Rob King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun Factory written by Rob King and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 wit its high-energy comic-shorts."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Brent E. Walker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457074
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mack Sennett's Fun Factory written by Brent E. Walker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy. The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films Sennett produced, directed, wrote or appeared in between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book, featuring 280 photographs, also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.

Author : Standard Publishing
Publisher : Standard Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780784730362
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Main Street: Fun Factory written by Standard Publishing and published by Standard Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 64-page guide is packed with options! (more projects than last year!) Choose from craft projects kids can make to remind them to practice the Word on the Street, or choose from service projects to help kids take the love of Jesus to their communities.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun Factory written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lyndsay Milne
Publisher : Reader's Digest Young Families, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781575840314
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun Factory written by Lyndsay Milne and published by Reader's Digest Young Families, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainy day imaginative play activities will never be the same, as kids learn to make their own toys and games from household materials and a few inexpensive art supplies. The dozens of projects have all been thoroughly tested to make sure that they match the skills, needs and interests of grade schoolers. Includes "eco-facts" that teach kids the importance of recycling and ways to help save the environment. Full color.

Author : Patric Lewandowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985150617
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun Factory written by Patric Lewandowski and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first printed collection of Fun Factory comic strips.

Author : Robert J. Osterhoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Lionel Trains Fun Factory written by Robert J. Osterhoff and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like Lionel toy trains? Enjoy corporate history? Or just want to take a nostalgic journey back to your childhood? Then Inside The Lionel Trains Fun Factory: The History of a Manufacturing Icon and The Place Where Childhood Dreams Were Made is for you. It delivers a fascinating trip through the rise, fall and rise again of Lionel, one of the manufacturing and pop icons in modern American life. The impeccable research by Lionel historian Robert J. Osterhoff, along with hundreds of unpublished photos and images, tells the history of Lionel's trains, factories, employees and business practices from the late 19th century until today.