The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

ISBN-13: 9780520269019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str.

Wayne Koestenbaum

Opis

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 attributehis profound and contradictory corporeality. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpo s bodyits 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."

O autorze

Wayne Koestenbaum is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of thirteen books of criticism, poetry, and fiction, including a biography of Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed The Queens Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.