Harpo Marx as trickster /
"The book demonstrates how Harpo, the sweetest, wildest, most magical Marx brother, accomplishes the archetypal trickster's work. Thirteen chapters examine Harpo's trickster persona closely in each Marx Brothers film. The author demonstrates his luck, foolishness, cleverness, mania, h...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The cocoanuts (1929): trickster appears
- Animal crackers (1930): the professor professes
- Monkey business (1931): not quite chevalier
- Horse feathers (1932): dogging football
- Duck soup (1933): taking a scissors to war
- A night at the opera (1935): cleaning with dirt
- A day at the races (1937): it's Gabriel
- Room service (1938): gimme shelter, food, and art
- At the circus (1939): Swingali's sneeze
- Go west (1940): feeding the train the train
- The big store (1941): mercantile mayhem
- A night in Casablanca (1946): meta Marx
- Love happy (1949): trickster's capstone, or hail and farewell
- Conclusion: a retrospective montage.