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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx / / Wayne Koestenbaum



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Autore: Koestenbaum Wayne Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Anatomy of Harpo Marx / / Wayne Koestenbaum Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]
©2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina: 792.702/8092
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Soggetto topico: Comedians - United States
Comedians -- United States -- Biography
Marx, Harpo
Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964
Motion picture actors and actresses - United States
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Drama
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Early Ecstatic Emptiness -- II. Later Astonishments -- III. The Idiot Tumbles Back to the Beginning of Time
Sommario/riassunto: The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers films, from The Cocoanuts in 1929 to Love Happy in 1950, to focus on Harpo's chief and yet heretofore unexplored attribute-his profound and contradictory corporeality. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpo's body-its kinks, sexual multiplicities, somnolence, Jewishness, "cute" pathos, and more. In a virtuosic performance, Koestenbaum's text moves gracefully from insightful analysis to cultural critique to autobiographical musing, and provides Harpo with a host of odd bedfellows, including Walter Benjamin and Barbra Streisand.
Titolo autorizzato: The Anatomy of Harpo Marx  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-11654-4
9786613520838
0-520-95198-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461708303321
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