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020 _a9780814339664
020 _z9780814339657 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPN1995.9.C55
_bB345 2013
082 0 0 _a791.43/617/0973
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100 1 _aBalcerzak, Scott.
245 1 0 _aBuffoon men
_h[electronic resource] :
_bclassic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity /
_cScott Balcerzak.
260 _aDetroit, Michigan :
_bWayne State University Press,
_c[2013]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (x, 258 pages :)
_billustrations ;
490 0 _aContemporary approaches to film and media series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: "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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aQueer theory.
650 0 _aMasculinity in motion pictures.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aComedy films
_zUnited States
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814339664/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32775
_d32775