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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. 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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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: What Made Pistachio Nuts?
• Subtitle: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
• Author: Henry Jenkins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780231078559
• ISBN: 0231078552
• ID: 04556823
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 512 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 228 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. December 1992

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