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Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx
SciFier: $50.36This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling Harpo or perhaps his collaborator is the best writer of... -
Harpo Marx as Trickster by Charlene Fix
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $43.99The author invites readers to spend time in the pleasure of Harpo's cinematic company while comparing him to tricksters from folklore, myth and legend. The book demonstrates how Harpo, the... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269002
RRP: $144.27SciFier: $132.80"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269019
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $66.39"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence Lee Siegel 9780300244540
SciFier: $29.43A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be... -
Groucho And Me Groucho Marx 9780306806667
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $39.37With impeccable timing, outrageous humour, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) 9780393356298
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $27.37In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into... -
Son of Harpo Speaks! Bill Marx 9781557837905
SciFier: $37.76Bill Marx is the last living person to have worked professionally with the three Marx Brothers his uncles Chico and Groucho and his father Harpo Marx. Because Chico and Groucho had siblings that... -
Children of Hollywood by Michelle Vogel
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $43.99Living in the shadow of a famous parent can have powerful effects, from professional opportunities to pressure so great it leads to suicide. Some children of stars are proud of their roots while... -
The Slapstick Camera: Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference Burke Hilsabeck 9781438477312
SciFier: $164.51Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium.Slapstick film comedy may be grounded in idiocy and failure, but the genre is far more... -
Andy Warhol: A Biography Wayne Koestenbaum 9781497699892
RRP: $31.95SciFier: $19.44An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture,... -
Vocal Apparitions by Michal Grover-Friedlander
RRP: $137.40SciFier: $121.81Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what...