{"product_id":"what-made-pistachio-nuts-henry-jenkins-9780231078559","title":"What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic","description":"Lively and highly readable, \u003ci\u003eWhat Made Pistachio Nuts?\u003c\/i\u003e examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition of American film comedy. Anarchistic comedies of the 1930s mock the social order and celebrate the creativity and impulsiveness of their protagonists in a form of clowning that ultimately reestablishes the status quo.Jenkins focuses on well-known films such as the Marx Brothers' \u003ci\u003eDuck Soup\u003c\/i\u003e and W.C. Fields' \u003ci\u003eIt's a Gift, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as all-but-forgotten works like \u003ci\u003eDiplomaniacs, Hollywood Party, So Long Lefty, \u003c\/i\u003e and others. He tracks the careers of the comic stars -Eddie Cantor, Winnie LIghtner, W.C. Fields, Charlotte Greenwood, the Marx Brothers, and Wheeler and Woolsey- as they moved from vaudeville and the New York reviews to Hollywo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231078552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231078559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 5.87w x 0.95d","brand":"Henry Jenkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44756957036799,"sku":"9780231078559","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dcf49964-1a81-46bb-aac0-37105771da3b.jpg?v=1706594234","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-made-pistachio-nuts-henry-jenkins-9780231078559","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}