The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

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.

ISBN:	9780520269019
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	29 Feb 2012
DEWEY:	792.7028092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	299
Weight:	580g
Height:	229mm
Width:	151mm
Spine width:	19mm

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