The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
Book Details
- Author
- Wayne Koestenbaum
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780520269002
- ISBN-10
- 0520269004
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ISBN: 0520269004
Author: Koestenbaum, Wayne
Condition: New
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marxs 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 Harpos chief and yet heretofore unexplored attribute-his profound and contradictory corporeality. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpos body-its kinks, sexual multiplicities, somnolence, Jewishness, cute pathos, and more. In a virtuosic performance, Koestenbaums 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.
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