What Made Pistachio Nuts? – Early Sound Comedy & the Vaudeville Aesthetic (Paper) : Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Film and Culture Series
ISBN-10
0231078552
ISBN-13
9780231078559
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Columbia University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 29th, 1992
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
512 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
United States of America, USAFilm theory & criticismFilm history, theory or criticism
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This study celebrates the "anarchistic" film comedies made in the USA in the 1930s, which mocked the creativity and impulsiveness of their protagonists in a form of clowning that ultimately re-established the status quo. Films discussed include "Duck Soup" and W.C. Fields's "It's a Gift".
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 quo. Jenkins focuses on well-known films such as the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup and W.C. Fields' It's 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, W.C. 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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