Buffoon men : classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity / / Scott Balcerzak
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| Autore: |
Balcerzak Scott
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| Titolo: |
Buffoon men : classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity / / Scott Balcerzak
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| Pubblicazione: | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/617/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Comedy films - United States - History and criticism |
| Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States | |
| Masculinity in motion pictures | |
| Queer theory | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: "Someone like me for a member": classic Hollywood comedians and buffoonish masculinity -- "Novelties and notions": Mae West meets W. C. Fields -- Con men and henpecked husbands: W. C. Fields as masculine icon -- "Whitefacing" the nebbish: Eddie Cantor's assimilation and influence -- Queered radio / Queered cinema: Jack Benny's mediated voice -- Queering the fraternity: Laurel and Hardy and heterosexual brotherhood -- Military disservice: Wheeler and Woolsey and Abbott and Costello join the army -- Conclusion: Beyond classic Hollywood /beyond buffoonish masculinity. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Buffoon men |
| ISBN: | 0-8143-3966-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818933903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series