What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
by:
Henry Jenkins (author)
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...
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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. Columbia University Press
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780231078559 (0231078552)
Publish date: December 15th 1992
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Series: Film and Culture
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