Harpo Marx as Trickster

2013-03-04 Performing Arts

Author : Charlene Fix
Release : 2013-03-04
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 476/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Harpo Marx as Trickster by : Charlene Fix

Download or read book Harpo Marx as Trickster written by Charlene Fix. This book was released on 2013-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author invites readers to spend time in the pleasure of Harpo's cinematic company while comparing him to tricksters from folklore, myth and legend. The book demonstrates how Harpo, the sweetest, wildest, most magical Marx brother, accomplishes the archetypal trickster's work. Thirteen chapters examine Harpo's trickster persona closely in each of the Marx Brothers' films: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Room Service, At the Circus, Go West, The Big Store, A Night in Casablanca and Love Happy. Harpo as trickster embodies luck, foolishness, cleverness, mania, hunger, lust, stealing, shape-shifting, gender-bending, alliance with underdogs, attacks on the powerful, musicality, sympathy for animals, magic and mischief. His trickster behaviors in all the films are woven into a composite impression that "with a little luck, will resonate beyond the covers of this book and leak out into the world, making it a more just, flexible, resilient, amusing and magical place."

Harpo Marx as Trickster

2013-02-07 Performing Arts

Author : Charlene Fix
Release : 2013-02-07
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 496/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Harpo Marx as Trickster by : Charlene Fix

Download or read book Harpo Marx as Trickster written by Charlene Fix. This book was released on 2013-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author invites readers to spend time in the pleasure of Harpo's cinematic company while comparing him to tricksters from folklore, myth and legend. The book demonstrates how Harpo, the sweetest, wildest, most magical Marx brother, accomplishes the archetypal trickster's work. Thirteen chapters examine Harpo's trickster persona closely in each of the Marx Brothers' films: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Room Service, At the Circus, Go West, The Big Store, A Night in Casablanca and Love Happy. Harpo as trickster embodies luck, foolishness, cleverness, mania, hunger, lust, stealing, shape-shifting, gender-bending, alliance with underdogs, attacks on the powerful, musicality, sympathy for animals, magic and mischief. His trickster behaviors in all the films are woven into a composite impression that "with a little luck, will resonate beyond the covers of this book and leak out into the world, making it a more just, flexible, resilient, amusing and magical place."

Comedy

2014-06-27 Literary Criticism

Author : Andrew Stott
Release : 2014-06-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 973/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Comedy by : Andrew Stott

Download or read book Comedy written by Andrew Stott. This book was released on 2014-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Andrew Stott’s Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin. This new edition features: updates to reflect new research the field new chapters on Women in Comedy and Race and Ethnicity a broader range of literary and cultural examples. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is ideal introduction to comedy for students studying literature and culture.

American Tricksters

2014-12-18 History

Author : William J. Jackson
Release : 2014-12-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 905/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book American Tricksters written by William J. Jackson. This book was released on 2014-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tricksters are known by their deeds. Obviously not all the examples in American Tricksters are full-blown mythological tricksters like Coyote, Raven, or the Two Brothers found in Native American stories, or superhuman figures like the larger-than-life Davy Crockett of nineteenth-century tales. Newer expressions of trickiness do share some qualities with the Trickster archetype seen in myths. Rock stars who break taboos and get away with it, heroes who overcome monstrous circumstances, crafty folk who find a way to survive and thrive when the odds are against them, men making spectacles of themselves by feeding their astounding appetites in public--all have some trickster qualities. Each person, every living creature who ever faced an obstacle and needed to get around it, has found the built-in trickster impulse. Impasses turn the trickster gene on, or stimulate the trick-performing imagination--that's life. To explore the ways and means of trickster maneuvers can alert us to pitfalls, help us appreciate tricks that are entertaining, and aid us in fending off ploys which drain our resources and ruin our lives. Knowing more about the Trickster archetype in our psyches helps us be more self-aware.

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

2012-02-29 Performing Arts

Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
Release : 2012-02-29
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 980/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Harpo Marx written by Wayne Koestenbaum. This book was released on 2012-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 cultural critique to autobiographical musing, and provides Harpo with a host of odd bedfellows, including Walter Benjamin and Barbra Streisand.

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