The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marxs 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...
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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marxs 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 Harpos chief and yet heretofore unexplored attribute - his profound and contradictory corporeality. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpos body - its kinks, sexual multiplicities, somnolence, Jewishness, "cute" pathos, and more. In a virtuosic performance, Koestenbaums 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.
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Acknowledgments I. Early Ecstatic Emptiness The Holy Fool Flees Language's Stink Bomb: The Cocoanuts (1929) Pinky, the Pointing Scapegoat, Lags Behind: Duck Soup (1933) The Mad Mohel's Goo-Goo Eyes of Monomaniacal Attunement: A Night at the Opera (1935) Poppy Power; or, The Thick-Enough Art of Zombie Dumbfoundment: Animal Crackers (1930) II. Later Astonishments Fake Dead Jew as Cute Zoo-Idiot: Room Service (1938) Passe Punchy's Humiliated Buddy Huddle: At the Circus (1939) Freeze Rusty's Anal Rage in a Cozy Void: Go West (1940) Lonely Wacky's Incremental Lines of Flight: The Big Store (1941) The Bubble-Blowing Demarcator Tickles Totality: A Night in Casablanca (1946) Bulge, Glaze, Pause, Shock; or, The Bushy-Haired Ragpicker's Burnt Offering: Love Happy (1949) III. The Idiot Tumbles Back to the Beginning of Time The Undeliverable Ice of Pinky's Mom-Mouth: Horse Feathers (1932) The Kippering, Bopping, Shushing, Bear-Hugging, Beard-Pulling Bustle: Monkey Business (1931) The Pretzel Glimmer-Eye of Stuffy's Stuttering Surge: A Day at the Races (1937)
Autoren-Porträt von Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of thirteen books of criticism, poetry, and fiction, including a biography of Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed The Queens Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.
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- Autor: Wayne Koestenbaum
- 2012, 336 Seiten, 388 Abbildungen, Maße: 15 x 22,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: University of California Press
- ISBN-10: 0520269012
- ISBN-13: 9780520269019
Sprache:
Englisch
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"A zesty and deeply literate joy to read."--New Haven Review "A charming and rigorous study."--Sight & Sound Magazine "A fittingly zany, aphoristic, and meandering study of the great mime of Marx Brothers fame... Koestenbaum's approach to Harpo makes for highly animated reading."--Bookforum "Koestenbaum provides an informed, original, and near-obsessive assessment of all things Harpo."--Publishers Weekly
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