What is a Marx Brother?: critical practice, industrial practice, and the notion of the comic auteur.

Velvet Light Trap | September 22, 1990| | Copyright

WHEN ANDREW SARRIS FIRST POPULARIZED auteur criticism in the United States with his The American Cinema, he included in his catalog of auteurs eight comic performers. Since five of these performers also worked in creative nonperforming roles throughout their careers, their inclusion makes some sense: Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton, admitted to the Pantheon, were their own producers, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors as well as stars; Jerry Lewis and Harold Lloyd, though listed with the other "nondirectorial auteurs," did indeed direct; and W.C. Fields ...

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