Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity

(Part of the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series Series)

by Scott Balcerzak

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814339654

ISBN13:9780814339657

Release Date:October 2013

Publisher:Wayne State University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Arts, Music & Photography Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity

(Part of the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series Series)

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