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What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
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Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? 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' 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.

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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.

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  • Title What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
  • Author Henry Jenkins
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 382
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, Irvington, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1992-12-29
  • ISBN 9780231078559 / 0231078552
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.91 x 5.87 x 0.95 in (22.63 x 14.91 x 2.41 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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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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