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

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

Film and Culture Series

Henry Jenkins

416 pages first pub 1992 (view editions)

nonfiction funny informative reflective medium-paced
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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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