Abstract

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: SATIRE IN OVERALLS: THE KEYSTONE FILM COMPANY AND POPULAR CULTURE 1. The Fun Factory: Class, Comedy, and Popular Culture, 1912-1914 2. Funny Germans and Funny Drunks: Clowns, Class, and Ethnicity at Keystone, 1913-1915 3. The Impossible Attained! Tillie's Punctured Romance and the Challenge of Feature-Length Slapstick, 1914-1915 PART II: MORE CLEVER AND LESS VULGAR: THE KEYSTONE FILM COMPANY AND MASS CULTURE 4. Made for the Masses with an Appeal to the Classes: Keystone, the Triangle Film Corporation, and the Failure of Highbrow Film Culture, 1915-1917 5. Uproarious Inventions: Keystone, Modernity, and the Machine, 1915-1917 6. From Diving Venus to Bathing Beauties: Reification and Feminine Spectacle, 1916-1917 Conclusion Notes Filmography Index

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