This week I enjoyed observing a modern take on a Keystone Kop film. You remember. The Keystone Kops were a bunch of zany law enforcement officers whose hilarious attempts to catch lawbreakers were ...
"The Fun Factory": Class, Comedy, and Popular Culture, 1912-1914 -- "Funny Germans" and "Funny Drunks": Clowns, Class, and Ethnicity at Keystone, 1913-1915 -- "The Impossible Attained!" Tillie's ...
Film historian Louvish, having previously focused on comedy legends of the early sound era (Stan and Ollie, etc.), turns his attention to Sennett, the silent film mogul responsible for the iconic ...