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A Century of the Marx Brothers
Contributor(s): Mills, Joseph (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1847182402     ISBN-13: 9781847182401
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
OUR PRICE: $61.90  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2008360032
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.1" L (0.80 lbs) 185 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
 
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In 1905 Julius Marx began his vaudeville career with the singing group The Leroy Trio and was abandoned in the middle of the tour. It was an inauspicious start for the person who would become Groucho. A hundred years later, the Marx Brothers have permeated our culture from the plastic noses and glasses worn at parties to a Smithsonian exhibition which explains DNA recombination using A Night at the Opera. Although they completed relatively few films together, the brothers have become icons, recognizable even to people who have never seen their movies. Most scholarly work on the Marx Brothers has focused on biographical aspects of their careers and lives; A Century of the Marx Brothers suggests a myriad of other useful approaches to their film and stage productions. The collection's eleven essays examine the Marx Brothers' work from a number of critical perspectives ranging from reader-response theory to film semiotics. The contributors include international scholars in a variety of fields, such as literature, cultural studies, performance studies, and film history.
 
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