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What Made Pistachio Nuts?
Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
ISBN: 9780231078542
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls anarchistic comedy, a body of comedian-centered films produced in the early 1930s, the first years of the sound era…
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Lively and highly readable, "What Made Pistachio Nuts?" examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition in 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' "Duck Soup" and W.C. Fields' "It's a Gift", as well as all-but-forgotten works like "Diplomaniacs", "Hollywood Party", "So Long Lefty", 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.
