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Harpo Marx as trickster
- Title
- Harpo Marx as trickster / Charlene Fix.
- Author
- Fix, Charlene.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MWES (Marx, H.) 13-4356 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- vii, 223 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The book demonstrates how Harpo, the sweetest, wildest, most magical Marx brother, accomplishes the archetypal trickster's work. Thirteen chapters examine Harpo's trickster persona closely in each Marx Brothers film. The author demonstrates his luck, foolishness, cleverness, mania, hunger, lust, stealing, shape-shifting, gender-bending, alliance with underdogs, attacks on the powerful, musicality, sympathy for animals, magic, and mischief."--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The cocoanuts (1929): trickster appears -- Animal crackers (1930): the professor professes -- Monkey business (1931): not quite chevalier -- Horse feathers (1932): dogging football -- Duck soup (1933): taking a scissors to war -- A night at the opera (1935): cleaning with dirt -- A day at the races (1937): it's Gabriel -- Room service (1938): gimme shelter, food, and art -- At the circus (1939): Swingali's sneeze -- Go west (1940): feeding the train the train -- The big store (1941): mercantile mayhem -- A night in Casablanca (1946): meta Marx -- Love happy (1949): trickster's capstone, or hail and farewell -- Conclusion: a retrospective montage.
- Call Number
- MWES (Marx, H.) 13-4356
- ISBN
- 9780786471478 (paperback : acid-free paper)
- 0786471476 (paperback : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2013001547
- 40022059973
- OCLC
- 810120218
- Author
- Fix, Charlene.
- Title
- Harpo Marx as trickster / Charlene Fix.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022059973
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Marx, H.) 13-4356