What Made Pistachio Nuts?

By Henry Jenkins

Book Overview

Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition in American film comedy. Anarchistic comedies of the 1930s mock the social order and celebrate the creativity and impulsiveness of their protagonists in a form of clowning that ultimately reestablishes the status quo.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231078544
• ISBN13: 9780231078542
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"