 Kansas Saloon Smashers has been categorized as burlesque , re @-@ enactment , and political satire . Being based on a recent news event , it is noted as helping further the " visual newspaper " style of film . The short portrays saloons as positive , sanitary places rather than immoral establishments . In Musser 's book The Emergence of Cinema , he writes that " the women 's invasion of a male refuge is seemingly attributed to sexual frustration and the concomitant need for revenge , " while author Karen Blumenthal opined that Kansas Saloon Smashers suggests women were only attacking due to a few miscreants being present in the establishments . 
