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Author_Martin A. Gardner
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marx brothers
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- ISBN 9780786439423
- Weight: 295g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2009
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Marx Brothers' films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes, gags, puns, pratfalls, and mimicry. But beneath the laughs is a serious and biting condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, political practices, economic conditions, manners and customs, literary subjects, and popular entertainment as satirized in the films and considers the ways in which the films were relevant in their era and remain so today.
Martin A. Gardner has worked in advertising and as a writer for The Village Voice, House Beautiful, and Art Business News, among other periodicals. He lives in New York.
