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What made pistachio nuts? : early sound comedy and the vaudeville aesthetic /

What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls anarchistic comedy, a body of comedian-centered films produced in the early 1930s, the first years of the sound era. Bringing a fresh perspective to long-forgotten films by W.C. Fields, Wheeler and Woolsey, Eddie Cantor, and George Burns an...

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Main Author: Jenkins, Henry, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1992.
Series:Film and culture
Subjects and Genres:
Comedy films > History and criticism.
Films comiques > Histoire et critique.
Comedy films.
Filmkomödie.
Komische films.
Geluidsfilms.
Vaudeville.
Comédia.
Cinema > Estados unidos.
Films comiques > 1929-1945 > Histoire et critique.
Cinema > Comedy films > History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • The Strange Case of the Backflipping Senators
  • 2.
  • "How Is It Possible for a Civilized Man to Live Among People Who Are Always Joking?" Class, Comedy, and Cultural Change in Turn-of-the-Century America
  • 3.
  • "A Regular Mine, a Reservoir, a Proving Ground": Reconstructing the Vaudeville Aesthetic
  • 4.
  • "Assorted Lunacy ... with No Beginning and No End": Gag, Performance, and Narrative in Early Sound Comedy
  • 5.
  • "A High-Class Job of Carpentry": Toward a Typography of Early Sound Comedy
  • 6.
  • "Shall We Make It for New York or for Distribution?" Eddie Cantor, Whoopee, and Regional Resistance to the Talkies
  • 7.
  • "Fifi Was My Mother's Name!" Anarchistic Comedy, the Vaudeville Aesthetic, and Diplomaniacs.

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