What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (Film and Culture Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (Film and Culture Series) Book

Lively and highly readable, 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' and W.C. Fields' as well as all-but-forgotten works like 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.Read More

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  • 0231078552
  • 9780231078559
  • H Jenkins
  • 22 June 1993
  • Columbia University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 416
  • New Ed
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