CSI Faculty Rob King Honoured
Cinema Studies Institute and Innis College congratulate Rob King on his award.
The Fun Factory
Theatre Library Association
Richard Wall Memorial Award 2010 Special Jury Prize Winner
The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
by Rob King
University of California Press, 2009
Each year, Theatre Library Association (USA) honours exceptional scholarly publications from the previous year, with the George Freedley Memorial Award and the Richard Wall Memorial Award. For the 2010 awards, more than 150 academic and commercial publishers were invited to participate, with nearly 350 titles nominated by TLA members and publishers.
Wall juror Charlotte Cubbage called King's work "an in-depth and convincing analysis of the ways the Keystone Film Company reflected major social changes of its era," noting in particular the author's "scholarly responses to popular entertainment of the time period."
The 42nd Annual Theatre Library Association Book Awards will be held at Lincoln Center in New York City on Friday, October 8, 2010 at 6:00pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (enter at Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street). Doors open at 5:30. A champagne reception will follow.
Nostrovia!
Kay Armatage
Acting Director, CSI
and Acting Principal, Innis College
