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Autore: | Balcerzak Scott |
Titolo: | Buffoon men : classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity / / Scott Balcerzak |
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.: | 9910789030903321 |
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