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Author Balcerzak, Scott, author.

Title Buffoon men : classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity / Scott Balcerzak.

Publication Info. Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 258 pages : illustrations).
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Series Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Queer theory.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Comedy films. (OCoLC)fst00869095
Masculinity in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01011041
Motion pictures -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01027384
Queer theory. (OCoLC)fst01739572
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Balcerzak, Scott. Buffoon men. Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2013] 9780814339657 (DLC) 2013006169 (OCoLC)828487104
ISBN 9780814339664 (electronic bk.)
0814339662 (electronic bk.)
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