What Made Pistachio Nuts? : Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic Paperback / softback
by Henry Jenkins
Part of the Film and Culture Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition of American film comedy.
Anarchistic comedies of the 1930s mock the social order and celebrate the creativity and impulsiveness of their protagonists in a form of clowning that ultimately reestablishes the status quo. Jenkins focuses on well-known films such as the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup and W.C.
Fields' It's a Gift, as well as all-but-forgotten works like Diplomaniacs,Hollywood Party, So Long Lefty, and others.
He tracks the careers of the comic stars -Eddie Cantor, Winnie LIghtner, W.C.
Fields, Charlotte Greenwood, the Marx Brothers, and Wheeler and Woolsey- as they moved from vaudeville and the New York reviews to Hollywood.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages, World
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:29/12/1992
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- ISBN:9780231078559
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages, World
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:29/12/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780231078559
