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Author Balcerzak, Scott.

Title Buffoon men : classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity / Scott Balcerzak.

Publication Info. Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations.
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online resource rdacarrier
Series Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: "Someone like me for a member": classic Hollywood comedians and buffoonish masculinity -- "Novelties and notions": Mae West meets W. C. Fields -- Con men and henpecked husbands: W. C. Fields as masculine icon -- "Whitefacing" the nebbish: Eddie Cantor's assimilation and influence -- Queered radio / Queered cinema: Jack Benny's mediated voice -- Queering the fraternity: Laurel and Hardy and heterosexual brotherhood -- Military disservice: Wheeler and Woolsey and Abbott and Costello join the army -- Conclusion: Beyond classic Hollywood /beyond buffoonish masculinity.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Queer theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Balcerzak, Scott. Buffoon men : classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity. Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2013] Contemporary approaches to film and media series 9780814339657 (DLC)10836379
ISBN 9780814339657 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814339664 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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