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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marxs 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 Harpos chief and yet heretofore unexplored attribute - his profound and contradictory corporeality. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpos body - its kinks, sexual multiplicities, somnolence, Jewishness, "cute" pathos, and more. In a virtuosic performance, Koestenbaums 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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Individual actors & performers

• Full title: Anatomy of Harpo Marx
• Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780520269019
• ISBN: 0520269012
• ID: 04459393
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 580 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 151 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. February 2012

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