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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 hereto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koestenbaum, Wayne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Marx, Harpo, > 1888-1964.
Marx, Harpo, > 1888-1964
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
Comedians > United States > Biography.
Comiques > États-Unis > Biographies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Comedy.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Comedians.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 cul
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9780520951983
0520951980
1280116544
9781280116544

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