The Anatomy of Harpo Marx by Koestenbaum, Wayne

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520269002)

Vendor: Wayne Koestenbaum
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$74.95
$74.95
$74.95
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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx by Koestenbaum, Wayne

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

$74.95
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx by Koestenbaum, Wayne

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

$74.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
ISBN-10: 0520269004
ISBN-13: 9780520269002
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/29/2012
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/30/2012
Choice 08/01/2012
By Wayne Koestenbaum
By Wayne Koestenbaum
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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 Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.

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