Koestenbaum, Wayne
by The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780520269019
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Berkeley. 2012. February 2012. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520269019. An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities. 388 b/w photographs . 336 pages. paperback. . keywords: Cinema Film Studies. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. inventory #38188 ISBN: 9780520269019.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Author
- The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0520269012
- ISBN 13
- 9780520269019
- Publisher
- University Of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley Calfornia
- This edition first published
- 2012-02
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