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  1. Buffoon men
    classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity
    Author: Balcerzak, Scott
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich.

    Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a "trickster," a "rebel," or a "buffoon." Yet the performer is almost always described as a "he." In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and... more

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
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    Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a "trickster," a "rebel," or a "buffoon." Yet the performer is almost always described as a "he." In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances of notable comedians such as W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello through humor and queer theory to expose a problematic history of maleness in their personas. He argues that contrary to popular notions of Classic Hollywood history, these male comedians rearranged or, at times, rejected heteronormative protocols. -- Publisher website

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0814339654; 9780814339657
    RVK Categories: AP 52450 ; AP 50300 ; AP 59483
    Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
    Subjects: Filmkomödie; Männlichkeit <Motiv>; Homosexualität <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 258 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 237-248
  2. Buffoon men
    classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity
    Author: Balcerzak, Scott
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0814339654; 0814339662; 9780814339657; 9780814339664
    Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Comedy films; Masculinity in motion pictures; Motion pictures / Social aspects; Queer theory; Film; Gesellschaft; Comedy films; Motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures; Queer theory; Komödie; Film; Männlichkeit <Motiv>; Geschlechtsidentität <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 online resource (x, 258 pages, illustrations)
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    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

    Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a "trickster," a "rebel," or a "buffoon." Yet the performer is almost always described as a "he." In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances of notable comedians such as W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello through humor and queer theory to expose a problematic history of maleness in their personas. He argues that contrary to popular notions of Classic Hollywood history, these male comedians rearranged or, at times, rejected heteronormative protocols. -- Publisher website