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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

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

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Book Synopsis The Anatomy of Harpo Marx by : Wayne Koestenbaum

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.

Harpo Speaks!

2017-03-17 Performing Arts
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Release : 2017-03-17
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 891/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Harpo Speaks! by : Harpo Marx

Download or read book Harpo Speaks! written by Harpo Marx. This book was released on 2017-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1961, this is the autobiography of Harpo Marx, the silent comedian of The Marx Brothers fame. Writing of his life before, during, and after becoming famous by incorporating lovely and humorous stories and anecdotes, Harp Marx tells of growing up in a rough neighborhood and being poor, being bullied and dropping out of school, teaching himself to read, write, tell time, and to play the piano and harp. He speaks of his close relationships with his family members, particularly his mother and brother Leonard (Chico), who would become his partner-in-crime on screen, and the profound effect that the death of his parents Sam and Minnie had on him. Filled with insider tales of his antics on and off stage, and the hard graft he and his brothers put into reaching their level of success, the reader becomes privy to a rare glimpse into Marx’ thoughts on everything and everyone he had the privilege of working with. The book reveals the friendships he forged and the blows he was dealt in show-business, and of his marriage to his wife, actress Susan Fleming, with whom he adopted four children and built a ranch on which they lived happily ever after, along with numerous animals. A thoroughly enjoyable read. “This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal “A funny, affectionate and unpretentious autobiography done with a sharply professional assist from Rowland Barber.”—New York Times Book Review “This is a racy autobiography by the mute Marx Brother with the rolling eyes, oversized pants and red wig who could send a glissando reeling over his harp.[...] It is enjoyable reading and polished writing...”—Kirkus Review

The Pink Trance Notebooks

2015 Poetry
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Release : 2015
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 403/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Pink Trance Notebooks by : Wayne Koestenbaum

Download or read book The Pink Trance Notebooks written by Wayne Koestenbaum. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of 'addictively readable' daybook poems from a leading cultural critic and poet."--

Sounds Like Helicopters

2019-10-01 Performing Arts
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Release : 2019-10-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 329/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sounds Like Helicopters by : Matthew Lau

Download or read book Sounds Like Helicopters written by Matthew Lau. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical music masterworks have long played a key supporting role in the movies—silent films were often accompanied by a pianist or even a full orchestra playing classical or theatrical repertory music—yet the complexity of this role has thus far been underappreciated. Sounds Like Helicopters corrects this oversight through close interpretations of classical music works in key modernist films by Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Herzog, Luis Buñuel, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, and Terrence Malick. Beginning with the famous example of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" in Apocalypse Now, Matthew Lau demonstrates that there is a significant continuity between classical music and modernist cinema that belies their seemingly ironic juxtaposition. Though often regarded as a stuffy, conservative art form, classical music has a venerable avant-garde tradition, and key films by important directors show that modernist cinema restores the original subversive energy of these classical masterworks. These films, Lau argues, remind us of what this music sounded like when it was still new and difficult; they remind us that great music remains new music. The pattern of reliance on classical music by modernist directors suggests it is not enough to watch modernist cinema: one must listen to its music to sense its prehistory, its history, and its obscure, prophetic future.

Groucho Marx

2016-01-28 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-01-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 637/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Groucho Marx by : Lee Siegel

Download or read book Groucho Marx written by Lee Siegel. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee Siegel views the life of Groucho through the lens of his work on stage, screen, and television. The author uncovers the roots of the performer’s outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in Groucho’s early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. The first critical biography of Groucho Marx to approach his work analytically, this fascinating study draws unique connections between Groucho’s comedy and his life, concentrating primarily on the brothers’ classic films as a means of understanding and appreciating Julius the man. Unlike previous uncritical and mostly reverential biographies, Siegel’s “bio-commentary” makes a distinctive contribution to the field of Groucho studies by attempting to tell the story of his life in terms of his work, and vice versa.

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