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Lively and highly readable, 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' and W.C. Fields' as well as all-but-forgotten works like 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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Henry Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at MIT. He is author of Textual Poachers:Television Fans and Participatory Culture. He is coauthor of The Science Fiction Audience: Dr.Who, Star Trek, and Their Fans.
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Some years ago, in one of those chance encounters that must be familiar to all film scholars and move buffs, I was captivated by an obscure Fox musical on the late late show. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female comic performance, anarchistic comedy, dominant film practice, affirmative comedy, anarchistic sequences, barbershop sequence, comic antagonist, vaudeville aesthetic, expressive coherence, early sound comedy, marital combat, thoughtful laughter, comic anarchy, performance virtuosity, comedian comedy, comic disruption, wow finish, affective immediacy, showcase film, causal integration, early sound period, early sound comedies, screen comedy, revue films, comedian comedies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marx Brothers, Eddie Cantor, New York, New Humor, Warner Brothers, Chow Chow, Palmy Days, Bert Wheeler, Duck Soup, Jimmy Durante, Winnie Lightner, Robert Woolsey, United Artists, Charlotte Greenwood, Dorothy Lee, Groucho Marx, Glorifying the American Girl, Dead Rat, Half Shot, Joe Cook, Uncle Claude, Animal Crackers, Fanny Brice, Monkey Business, Show of Shows New!
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Some years ago, in one of those chance encounters that must be familiar to all film scholars and move buffs, I was captivated by an obscure Fox musical on the late late show. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female comic performance, anarchistic comedy, dominant film practice, affirmative comedy, anarchistic sequences, barbershop sequence, comic antagonist, vaudeville aesthetic, expressive coherence, early sound comedy, marital combat, thoughtful laughter, comic anarchy, performance virtuosity, comedian comedy, comic disruption, wow finish, affective immediacy, showcase film, causal integration, early sound period, early sound comedies, screen comedy, revue films, comedian comedies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marx Brothers, Eddie Cantor, New York, New Humor, Warner Brothers, Chow Chow, Palmy Days, Bert Wheeler, Duck Soup, Jimmy Durante, Winnie Lightner, Robert Woolsey, United Artists, Charlotte Greenwood, Dorothy Lee, Groucho Marx, Glorifying the American Girl, Dead Rat, Half Shot, Joe Cook, Uncle Claude, Animal Crackers, Fanny Brice, Monkey Business, Show of Shows New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations by Norbert Elias in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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