{"product_id":"fun-factory","title":"Fun Factory","description":"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.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220365136216,"sku":"9780520255388","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780520255388.jpg?v=1776885311","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fun-factory","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}