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Hollywood screwball comedy 1934-1945 : sex, love, and democratic ideals
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Comédie screwball hollywoodienne. English
Title
Hollywood screwball comedy 1934-1945 : sex, love, and democratic ideals / Grégoire Halbout ; translated from French by Aliza Krefetz.
ISBN
9781501347610
1501347616
9781501347627
9781501347603
Publication
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
xvi, 333 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 27 cm
Notes
Translation of: La comédie screwball hollywoodienne : 1934-1945 : sexe, amour et idéaux démocratiques.
Summary
"Establishes screwball comedy as a genre, and explains its success with the public - with 130 films produced between 1934 and 1945 - presented under three broad perspectives: historical and thematic; stylistic and aesthetic; and sociological"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Halbout, Grégoire. Comédie screwball hollywoodienne. English Hollywood screwball comedy 1934-1945 New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Proof of identity
Protagonists : the artisans of screwball comedy
Narrative tropes and genre categories
A socio-economic context conducive to censorship
Expressions : screwball comedy and the forms of censorship
Content : ideological scrubbing
Indirect discourse : the invention of the screwball style
The screwball New Deal and the society of mutual consent
The tension of the screwball celebration : preserving the democratic space.
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