A lively, personal, but also extremely informative and well-researched study of a Marx Brothers classic. Steven Cohan, Syracuse University, USA
1.My True Confession2.Serious Marxian Attributes3.Making Duck Soup4. The Movie5."Absurd Without Being Funny"6."Je suis marxiste, tendance Groucho"7.Who Are You Going to Believe-Me or Your Own Eyes?NotesCreditsBibliography
J. Hoberman is a film critic, journalist and author based in New York City, USA. From 1988 to 2012 he was Senior Film Critic for The Village Voice. He is the author of books including Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) (2012) An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War (2011); The Magic Hour: Film at Fin de Siècle (2003); The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties (2003) and 42nd Street in the BFI Film Classics series (1993).