The Resource The anatomy of Harpo Marx, Wayne Koestenbaum
The anatomy of Harpo Marx, Wayne Koestenbaum
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The item The anatomy of Harpo Marx, Wayne Koestenbaum represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
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- Summary
- 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 cul
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages)
- Contents
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- Early ecstatic emptiness. The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929)
- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933)
- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera
- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930)
- Later astonishments. Fake dead Jew as cute zoo-idiot: Room service (1938)
- Pass Punchy's humiliated buddy huddle: At the circus (1939)
- Freeze Rusty's anal rage in a cozy void: Go west (1940)
- Lonely wacky's incremental lines of flight: The big store (1941)
- The bubble-blowing demarcator tickles totality: A night in Casablanca (1946)
- Bulge, glaze, pause, shock; or, the bushy-haired ragpicker's burnt offering: Love happy (1950)
- The idiot tumbles back to the beginning of time. The undeliverable ice of pinky's mom-mouth: Horse feathers (1932)
- The kippering, bopping, shushing, bear-hugging, beard-pulling bustle: Monkey business (1931)
- The pretzel glimmer-eye of stuffy's stuttering surge: A day at the races
- Isbn
- 9780520951983
- Label
- The anatomy of Harpo Marx
- Title
- The anatomy of Harpo Marx
- Statement of responsibility
- Wayne Koestenbaum
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Comedians
- Comedians -- United States -- Biography
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964
- Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Comedy
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video | General
- United States
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 cul
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Dewey number
- 792.702/8092
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN2287.M54
- LC item number
- K84 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Marx, Harpo
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Comedians
- Marx, Harpo
- PERFORMING ARTS
- PERFORMING ARTS
- Comedians
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- United States
- Label
- The anatomy of Harpo Marx, Wayne Koestenbaum
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Early ecstatic emptiness. The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. Fake dead Jew as cute zoo-idiot: Room service (1938) -- Pass Punchy's humiliated buddy huddle: At the circus (1939) -- Freeze Rusty's anal rage in a cozy void: Go west (1940) -- Lonely wacky's incremental lines of flight: The big store (1941) -- The bubble-blowing demarcator tickles totality: A night in Casablanca (1946) -- Bulge, glaze, pause, shock; or, the bushy-haired ragpicker's burnt offering: Love happy (1950) -- The idiot tumbles back to the beginning of time. The undeliverable ice of pinky's mom-mouth: Horse feathers (1932) -- The kippering, bopping, shushing, bear-hugging, beard-pulling bustle: Monkey business (1931) -- The pretzel glimmer-eye of stuffy's stuttering surge: A day at the races
- Control code
- 779173389
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520951983
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613520838
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 352083
- 22573/cttsxxqp
- 6df5fddb-933c-49d2-899e-8d53a1f8c48f
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)779173389
- Label
- The anatomy of Harpo Marx, Wayne Koestenbaum
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Early ecstatic emptiness. The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. Fake dead Jew as cute zoo-idiot: Room service (1938) -- Pass Punchy's humiliated buddy huddle: At the circus (1939) -- Freeze Rusty's anal rage in a cozy void: Go west (1940) -- Lonely wacky's incremental lines of flight: The big store (1941) -- The bubble-blowing demarcator tickles totality: A night in Casablanca (1946) -- Bulge, glaze, pause, shock; or, the bushy-haired ragpicker's burnt offering: Love happy (1950) -- The idiot tumbles back to the beginning of time. The undeliverable ice of pinky's mom-mouth: Horse feathers (1932) -- The kippering, bopping, shushing, bear-hugging, beard-pulling bustle: Monkey business (1931) -- The pretzel glimmer-eye of stuffy's stuttering surge: A day at the races
- Control code
- 779173389
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520951983
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613520838
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 352083
- 22573/cttsxxqp
- 6df5fddb-933c-49d2-899e-8d53a1f8c48f
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)779173389
Subject
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Comedians
- Comedians -- United States -- Biography
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964
- Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Comedy
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video | General
- United States
- Motion picture actors and actresses
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