Buffoon men [electronic resource] : classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity / Scott Balcerzak.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and media seriesPublication details: Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 258 pages :) illustrationsISBN:- 9780814339664
- 791.43/617/0973 23
- PN1995.9.C55 B345 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
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.
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