The anatomy of Harpo Marx
Koestenbaum, Wayne.
The anatomy of Harpo Marx [electronic resource] / Wayne Koestenbaum. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. - ix, 299 p. : ill. cm.
Early ecstatic emptiness. The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. Fake dead Jew as cute zoo-idiot: Room service (1938) -- Pass Punchy's humiliated buddy huddle: At the circus (1939) -- Freeze Rusty's anal rage in a cozy void: Go west (1940) -- Lonely wacky's incremental lines of flight: The big store (1941) -- The bubble-blowing demarcator tickles totality: A night in Casablanca (1946) -- Bulge, glaze, pause, shock; or, the bushy-haired ragpicker's burnt offering: Love happy (1950) -- The idiot tumbles back to the beginning of time. The undeliverable ice of pinky's mom-mouth: Horse feathers (1932) -- The kippering, bopping, shushing, bear-hugging, beard-pulling bustle: Monkey business (1931) -- The pretzel glimmer-eye of stuffy's stuttering surge: A day at the races.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
Comedians--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2287.M54 / K84 2012eb
792.702/8092 B
The anatomy of Harpo Marx [electronic resource] / Wayne Koestenbaum. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. - ix, 299 p. : ill. cm.
Early ecstatic emptiness. The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. Fake dead Jew as cute zoo-idiot: Room service (1938) -- Pass Punchy's humiliated buddy huddle: At the circus (1939) -- Freeze Rusty's anal rage in a cozy void: Go west (1940) -- Lonely wacky's incremental lines of flight: The big store (1941) -- The bubble-blowing demarcator tickles totality: A night in Casablanca (1946) -- Bulge, glaze, pause, shock; or, the bushy-haired ragpicker's burnt offering: Love happy (1950) -- The idiot tumbles back to the beginning of time. The undeliverable ice of pinky's mom-mouth: Horse feathers (1932) -- The kippering, bopping, shushing, bear-hugging, beard-pulling bustle: Monkey business (1931) -- The pretzel glimmer-eye of stuffy's stuttering surge: A day at the races.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
Comedians--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2287.M54 / K84 2012eb
792.702/8092 B