What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic by Henry Jenkins

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What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic

Henry Jenkins

416 pages 1992

2 editions

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Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? 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 th...

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