Description: What Made Pistachio Nuts? : Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic, Paperback by Jenkins, Henry, ISBN 0231078552, ISBN-13 9780231078559, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 focuses on well-known films such as the Marx Brothers Duck Soup and . Fields Its 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, . Fields, Charlotte Greenwood, the Marx Brothers, and Wheeler and Woolsey- as they moved from vaudeville and the New York reviews to Hollywood.
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Book Title: What Made Pistachio Nuts? : Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: What Made Pistachio Nuts? : Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Film / General, Theater / History & Criticism, Comedy, Film / Genres / Comedy
Publication Year: 1992
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Subject Area: Performing Arts
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Henry Jenkins
Series: Film and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
