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 cultural critique to autobiographical musing, and provides Harpo with a host of odd bedfellows, including Walter Benjamin and Barbra Streisand.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520269019
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111628867
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
Author
Wayne Koestenbaum
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Television
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
590g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Wayne Koestenbaum
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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