The Screwball Comedy Films

Author : Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786488605

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Screwball Comedy and Film Noir by Thomas C. Renzi Pdf

This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two popular Hollywood staples that emerged around the same time. Despite their contrast in tone and theme, "Screwball" and "Noir" have many narrative elements in common. The author defines the two genres, discusses their historical development and inter-related conventions, and offers detailed comparative analyses of a number of films, among them The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday (screwballs), and Gilda and Sunset Blvd. (noirs).

Author : Duane Byrge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Screwball comedy films
ISBN : OCLC:1392117367

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The Screwball Comedy Films by Duane Byrge Pdf

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037946907

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Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461670919

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Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as popular today as ever! This book takes a closer look at the precise meanings of the terms screwball and romantic. Film fans and scholars alike tend to lump film with laughter and love under a screwball/romantic umbrella and use the terms screwball and romantic interchangeably. In reality, there is a distinction; the screwball variety places its emphasis on "funny," while the more traditional romantic comedy accents "love." Covering over 60 titles each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930s to the present, this research tool not only demonstrates how screwball and romantic comedy are two distinct genres, but also highlights pivotal social and artistic changes which impacted both genres. Includes 24 black and white movie stills, countless quotations from selected films, an annotated bibliography, and a two-part filmography. Not only an informative resource for film students and scholars, but also an interesting read for film buffs.

Author : James Harvey
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0306808323

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Romantic Comedy in Hollywood by James Harvey Pdf

In 1934 four movies—It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee—ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Slangy, playful, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love," the films that followed were unique in their combination of swank and slapstick. Here are the directors—Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise), Capra (It Happened One Night), Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday), McCarey (The Awful Truth), La Cava (My Man Godfrey, Stage Door), Sturges (The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle at Morgan's Creek)—and their stars—Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, William Powell, Myrna Loy, among others—all described and analyzed in one comprehensive and delightful volume.

Author : Grégoire Halbout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Heidi Wilkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474406901

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Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks by Heidi Wilkins Pdf

The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it is often perceived as perpetuating rigid, binary views of gender, and reinforcing patriarchal, dominant notions of masculinity and femininity. While previous scholarly discussion has focused on visual or narrative portrayals of gender, this book considers the ways that film sound "e; music, voice, sound effects and silence "e; is used to represent gender. Taking a socio-historical approach, Heidi Wilkins investigates a range of popular US genres including screwball comedy, the road movie and chick flicks to explore the ways that film sound can reinforce traditional assumptions about masculinity and femininity, impart ambivalent meanings to them, or even challenge and subvert the notion of gender itself. Case studies include His Girl Friday, Easy Rider and Bridesmaids.

Author : Ed Sikov
Publisher : Crown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015031608360

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Screwball by Ed Sikov Pdf

Screwball is the first richly illustrated tribute to the movies that tells one mad, illogical truth: Mutual loathing is no reason to give up on love. More than 240 pictures in striking duotone celebrate these exhilarating comedies.

Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Comedy films
ISBN : 9780810844247

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Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

It is an informative resource for film students and scholars and a thoroughly engaging read for film buffs."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : William K. Everson
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0806515341

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Hollywood Bedlam by William K. Everson Pdf

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Comedy films
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039353532

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Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

Author : Claire Mortimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136969393

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Romantic Comedy by Claire Mortimer Pdf

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 : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231503389

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Romantic Comedy by Tamar Jeffers McDonald Pdf

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
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501347603

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Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 by Grégoire Halbout Pdf

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.