What Made Pistachio Nuts?

Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (livre en anglais)

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de Henry Jenkins

Type

Essais

Sujet

Genre > Comédie Humour

Mots Clés

comédie, humour, Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields

Année d'édition

1992

Editeur

Columbia University Press

Collection

Film and Culture

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 382 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-231-07855-2
978-0-231-07855-9

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Henry Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at MIT. He is author of Textual Poachers:Television Fans and Participatory Culture. He is coauthor of The Science Fiction Audience: Dr.Who, Star Trek, and Their Fans.

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