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The anatomy of Harpo Marx [electronic resource] / Wayne Koestenbaum.

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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 hereto...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Koestenbaum, Wayne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Marx, Harpo, > 1888-1964.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
Comedians > United States > Biography.
Comedians.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Early ecstatic emptiness. The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929)
  • Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933)
  • The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera
  • Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930)
  • Later astonishments. Fake dead Jew as cute zoo-idiot: Room service (1938)
  • Pass Punchy's humiliated buddy huddle: At the circus (1939)
  • Freeze Rusty's anal rage in a cozy void: Go west (1940)
  • Lonely wacky's incremental lines of flight: The big store (1941)
  • The bubble-blowing demarcator tickles totality: A night in Casablanca (1946)
  • Bulge, glaze, pause, shock; or, the bushy-haired ragpicker's burnt offering: Love happy (1950)
  • The idiot tumbles back to the beginning of time. The undeliverable ice of pinky's mom-mouth: Horse feathers (1932)
  • The kippering, bopping, shushing, bear-hugging, beard-pulling bustle: Monkey business (1931)
  • The pretzel glimmer-eye of stuffy's stuttering surge: A day at the races.

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