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Author : Wes D. Gehring
Release : 2002
Genre : Comedy films
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 249/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy by : Wes D. Gehring
Download or read book Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an informative resource for film students and scholars and a thoroughly engaging read for film buffs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Release : 2007-04-10
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 385/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Romantic Comedy by : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Download or read book Romantic Comedy written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald. This book was released on 2007-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s. A final chapter traces the lasting influence of these earlier forms within current romantic comedies. Films include: Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You've Got Mail (1998).
Author : Grégoire Halbout
Release : 2022-01-13
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 624/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 by : Grégoire Halbout
Download or read book Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 written by Grégoire Halbout. This book was released on 2022-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Love at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage... What accounts for the enduring success of the Hollywood madcap comedies of the 1930s? Directed by masters of comedy (Hawks, LaCava, Leisen, Ruggles...) and featuring the decade's most iconic stars (Colbert, Dunne, Grant, Hepburn...), these films set romantic comedy standards for decades to come. Screwball comedy embarked on two challenging missions: to poke fun at established social norms and to undermine stereotypical depictions of gender roles, putting forward a discourse that postulated the possibility of equality between men and women. Grégoire Halbout's reexamination of screwball comedy provides a comprehensive overview of this (sub)genre, eschewing the auteurist approach and including “minor” works never before analyzed through the screwball lens. His book explains how these screwball stories met the expectations of a booming American middle class eager for the liberalization of morals, with daring plots, verbal humor and slapstick techniques. Building on the work of Cavell, Altman and Gehring, as well as international and French scholarship, Halbout's investigation unfolds in three parts. He first establishes a definition of Hollywood screwball comedy through a cross-sectional analysis of its socio-historical context and an in-depth examination of the genre. He then situates screwball comedy in relation to its institutional context. An exclusive study of archival material explains the emergence of a screwball aesthetic meant to subvert the prohibitions of the 1934 Hollywood Production Code through a verbal and visual rhetoric of diversion and mitigation. Finally, Halbout explores the social function of the genre's placement of romantic intimacy at the center of the public sphere and the democratic debate, confirming that screwball eccentricity upholds America's founding values: freedom of speech, free consent, and contractual engagement.
Author : Claire Mortimer
Release : 2010-04-05
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 39X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Romantic Comedy by : Claire Mortimer
Download or read book Romantic Comedy written by Claire Mortimer. This book was released on 2010-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy to the recent emergence of the bromance. Romantic Comedy examines the history of the genre, considering the social and cultural context for key developments in new genre cycles. It studies the key themes and issues at work within romantic comedy films, focusing in particular on the representation of gender and how the genre acts as a barometer for gender politics in the course of the twentieth century. Claire Mortimer provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the genre, tracing its development, enduring appeal, stars and the nature of its comedy. Mortimer discusses both British and Hollywood classic and contemporary romantic comedies, ranging from canonical films to more recent examples which have taken the genre in new directions. In-depth case studies span a wide variety of films, including: It Happened One Night Bringing Up Baby Annie Hall Four Weddings and a Funeral Bridget Jones’s Diary Wimbledon Knocked Up Sex and the City This book is the perfect introduction to the romantic comedy genre and will be particularly useful for all those investigating this area within film, media or women's studies.
Author : Wes D. Gehring
Release : 1986-02-21
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Screwball Comedy by : Wes D. Gehring
Download or read book Screwball Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring. This book was released on 1986-02-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
