Children of Paradise

How to watch Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies and why
by Michael Atkinson   posted Nov 20, 2008

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Hal Roach  |  television  |  DVD  |  Hollywood  |  comedy  |  silent film  |  The Great Depression  |  social classes

THE AUTHOR

Michael Atkinson is the author/editor of six books, including Ghosts in the Machine: Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Limelight Eds., 2000), Flickipedia (Chicago Review Press, 2007), Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood (SUNY Press, 2008), and the novels from St. Martin's Press Hemingway Deadlights and Hemingway Cutthroat.

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