Restoration Stage Comedies And Hollywood Remarriage Films

Author : Elizabeth Kraft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317064718

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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films by Elizabeth Kraft Pdf

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents, there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant, Millamant and Mirabell, and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon, Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.

Author : Elizabeth Kraft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317064725

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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films by Elizabeth Kraft Pdf

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents, there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant, Millamant and Mirabell, and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon, Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.

Author : Grégoire Halbout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501347627

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Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 by Grégoire Halbout Pdf

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 : Daniel Gustafson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482115

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Lothario's Corpse by Daniel Gustafson Pdf

Introduction: The long-running Restoration -- Corpsing Lothario -- Debating Dorimant -- Stuarts without end -- Libertines and liberalism.

Author : Elizabeth Kraft
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350187726

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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Kraft Pdf

This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects continuities and engagements with the comedy of previous eras; it is also noted for new forms and preoccupations engendered by the cultural, philosophical, and political concerns of the time, including democratizing revolutions, increasing secularization, and growing emphasis on individualism. Discussions emphasize the period's stage comedy and acknowledge comic expression in various forms of print media including the emerging literary form we now know as the novel. Contributions from scholars reflect a wide variety of interests in the field of 18th-century studies, and the inclusion of a generous number of illustrations throughout demonstrates that the period's visual culture was also an important part of the Enlightenment comic landscape. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to Enlightenment comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.

Author : Catherine Burroughs,J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000815986

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The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism by Catherine Burroughs,J. Ellen Gainor Pdf

The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women’s writing within, and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women’s consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing, dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field, bringing to the fore a long-neglected, vibrant, intelligent, deeply informed, and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship, learning, and artistry. The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatrical Theory and Dramatic Criticism is an important intervention into the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural History, while adding new dimensions to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Author : Lee Wallace
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478009139

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Reattachment Theory by Lee Wallace Pdf

In Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality—far from being the threat to “traditional” marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted—is so integral to its reimagining that all marriage is gay marriage. Drawing on the history of marriage, Stanley Cavell's analysis of Hollywood comedies of remarriage, and readings of recent gay and lesbian films, Wallace shows that queer experiments in domesticity have reshaped the affective and erotic horizons of heterosexual marriage and its defining principles: fidelity, exclusivity, and endurance. Wallace analyzes a series of films—Dorothy Arzner's Craig's Wife (1936); Tom Ford's A Single Man (2009); Lisa Cholodenko's High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010); and Andrew Haigh's Weekend (2011) and 45 Years (2015)—that, she contends, do not simply reflect social and legal changes; they fundamentally alter our sense of what sexual attachment involves as both a social and a romantic form.

Author : Marcus Tomalin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000042085

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Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830 by Marcus Tomalin Pdf

Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices of the age, as well as current trends in ecocriticism, historical prosody, sensory history, social history, and new materialism, it offers a pioneering investigation of themes that have never previously received sustained critical scrutiny. Specifically, it explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the period meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of particular time-telling objects. Consequently, each chapter considers a different device – mechanical watches, pendulums, sandglasses, sundials, flowers, and bells – and the literary responses of significant figures such as Alexander Pope, Anne Steele, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, and William Hazlitt are carefully examined.

Author : Bruce Buchan,Peter Denney,Karen Crawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317052500

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Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850 by Bruce Buchan,Peter Denney,Karen Crawley Pdf

In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring how censured behaviours and recommended practices resonated beyond the written word. As the contributors show, understanding changing perceptions and valuations of noise and sound allows us to chart how civility was understood in the context of significant political, social and cultural change, including the development of urban life, the extension of empire and the consolidation of legal procedure. Divided into three parts, Sound, Space and Civility in the British World demonstrates how both noise and sound could be recognized by eighteenth-century Britons as expressions of civility. The essays also explore the audible implications of uncivil conduct to complicate our understanding of the sonic range of politeness. The uses of sound and noise to interrogate British colonial anxieties about the distinction between civility and incivility are also investigated. Taken together, the essays identify the emergence of civility as a development that radically altered sonic attitudes and experiences, producing new notions of what counted as desirable or undesirable sound.

Author : Jakub Lipski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351137799

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Painting the Novel by Jakub Lipski Pdf

Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light on the history of the so-called "rise of the novel".

Author : Srividhya Swaminathan,Steven W. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351800945

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The Cinematic Eighteenth Century by Srividhya Swaminathan,Steven W. Thomas Pdf

This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects of slavery (Belle), piracy (Crossbones and Black Sails), monarchy (The Madness of King George and The Libertine), print culture (Blackadder and National Treasure), and the role of women (Marie Antoinette, The Duchess, and Outlander). This interdisciplinary collection draws from film theory and literary theory to discuss how film and television allows for critical re-visioning as well as revising of the cultural concepts in literary and extra-literary writing about the historical period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008345733

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Film by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 067473906X

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Pursuits of Happiness by Stanley Cavell Pdf

Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.

Author : SAMUEL. RICHARDSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 052183306X

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SIR CHARLES GRANDISON 4 VOLUME SET. by SAMUEL. RICHARDSON Pdf

Author : Gerald Mast
Publisher : Overlook Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015039136414

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Can't Help Singin' by Gerald Mast Pdf

Includes chapters on Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Busby Berkeley, Fred Astaire, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.