Rob King

Rob King is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute and Department of History, where he is currently working on a study of early sound slapstick and Depression-era mass culture. In addition to The Fun Factory, he is the co-editor of the volumes Early Cinema and the “National” (John Libbey Press, 2008) and, with Tom Paulus, Slapstick Comedy (Routledge, forthcoming 2010).