Overview

This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of the pioneering film producer and Academy Award winner 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 produced, directed, written by, or featuring Sennett 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 also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.

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this volume will be especially useful for researchers. It belongs in any comprehensive film-studies collection...useful...exhaustive --<i>Booklist</i>; an exceptional work.... Walker has made a significant 9780786457076contribution to the history of the film industry...essential --<i>Library Journal</i>; The most thorough resource to date on Sennett and his wacky world of gags, speedy comic chases, and the inevitable abuse of human bodies and property. Recommended --<i>Choice</i>; Brent E Walker has compiled and published an impressively detailed compendium comprising an exhaustive and chronologically presented filmography...a welcome and seminal addition that should be a core part of personal, academic, and community library American Film history reference collections. --<i>Midwest Book Review</i>; a homeric achievement in scholarship, and undoubtedly the standard reference to a major career --<i>pbpulse.com</i>; decades of careful research...an expert look at each phase of Sennett's career...indispensible, one of the most perfect film history books ever to be published...no excuse to not own <i>Mack Sennett's Fun Factory</i>...to describe this book as impressive is putting it mildly...a beautiful work of scholarship and a remarkable accomplishment...fascinating information. As a reference work and as a guide to a important slice of film history, this work has few equals --<i>Examiner.com</i>; mammoth study that is not only the first and last word on Sennett's screen work, it is one of the most comprehensive and beautifully mounted film books that I have seen in nearly 50 years of movie geekdom. I can offer no greater praise than to state that anyone with even a remote interest in early cinema should own this book. For libraries and study centers it is essential. For comedy film buffs, it is indispensable. Mack Sennett's <i>Fun Factory</i> is what this reviewer would call a perfect book --<i>Rogue Cinema</i>; massive tome...a gem and treasure trove of information...highly recommend...stands as a model of superior research and scholarly work --<i>Reference Reviews</i>; this is no dry academic treatise: it is thorough, and offers more detail than a casual reader might care to know, but for someone who cares about Sennett and his work, it's manna from heaven. I can promise film buffs and comedy aficionados that it's worth every penny --Leonard Maltin's <i>Movie Crazy</i>; no tribute to the 'King of Comedy' is as fitting or as accomplished as Brent Walker's monument to the Fun Factory --<i>Literary Review of Canada</i>; a major contribution to comedy film scholarship...is the essential book for all things Sennett --<i>Fielding's Review</i>; grand, comprehensive...jam-packed...massive hardback study...many joyful surprises, load of hilarious anecdotes and even the occasional pie in the face --<i>Wimgo.com.</i>

Author Information

Brent E. Walker is a web developer and historian who has contributed to numerous motion picture publications, DVD commentaries, shows, and Turner Classic Movies. He lives in Long Beach, California.

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