The Anatomy of Harpo Marx - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wayne KoestenbaumTheme:Aspects (Academic)/FilmPublish date:2/29/2012Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520269019ISBN-10:0520269012UPC:9780520269019Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.568Product ID:SC04JPEB1J
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520269019ISBN-10:0520269012UPC:9780520269019Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.568Product ID:SC04JPEB1J
Wayne Koestenbaum is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of thirteen books of criticism, poetry, and fiction, including a biography of Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.
Publisher: University of California Press
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