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The Art of the Screwball Comedy

Author : Doris Milberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786467819
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Screwball Comedy written by Doris Milberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One of this entertaining exploration of screwball comedies and their later offspring begins in the mid-1930s discussing the careers of popular stars such as Cary Grant and Carole Lombard and well-known supporting players like Walter Connally and Ralph Bellamy (also Asta the dog, top animal star of the 1930s!). Writers and directors are given their due: Frank Capra, Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges, just to name a few. Part Two, the meat of the book, takes an in depth look at the films, from the genre's inception (1934's It Happened One Night) to the recent 2003 Down with Love, and the stars that appear in them--Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere--ending with some thoughts about the future.

Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945

Author : Grégoire Halbout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347624
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 written by Grégoire Halbout and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 401 pages. 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.

Screwball

Author : Ed Sikov
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Screwball written by Ed Sikov and published by Crown. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810844249
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. 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.

Pursuits of Happiness

Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674739062
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Pursuits of Happiness written by Stanley Cavell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.

Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks

Author : Heidi Wilkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474406904
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks written by Heidi Wilkins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny

Author : Paul C. Tumey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1684051878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny written by Paul C. Tumey and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of screwball comics, with new research and rare art from some of the most hilarious cartoonists of all time. Before "screwball" became a movie genre, it was a staple of other forms of American culture, including newspaper comic strips. Emerging from the pressures of a rapidly accelerating technological and information-drenched society, screwball comics offered a healthy dose of laughter and perspective. The disruptive, manic, and surreal verbal-visual comedy of these "funnies" fostered an absurdist sensibility embraced by The Marx Brothers (who took their names from a popular comic strip), W. C. Fields, Tex Avery, Spike Jones, Ernie Kovacs, and Mad magazine. Comics scholar Paul C. Tumey traces the development of screwball as a genre in magazine cartoons and newspaper comics, presenting the work of around fifteen cartoonists, with an art-stuffed chapter on each. The book offers a wealth of previously un-reprinted comics unleashing fresh views of some of America's greatest and most-loved cartoonists, including George Herriman (Krazy Kat), E.C. Segar (creator of Popeye), Rube Goldberg (The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K.), Bill Holman (Smokey Stover), and Frederick Opper (Happy Hooligan). In addition, readers will be delighted to discover previously "lost" screwball masters, such as Gene Ahern (The Squirrel Cage), Gus Mager (Sherlocko the Monk), Boody Rogers (Sparky Watts), Milt Gross (Count Screwloose), George Swanson ($alesman $am) and others. Both humorous and educational, this book is aimed at a general audience of all ages and at university comics studies programs.

Building Madness

Author : Kate Danley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530525980
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Building Madness written by Kate Danley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max and Paul are just trying to keep their architecture company afloat, but they accidentally hired the mob to build a police retirement home. They may never get the project done in this screwball comedy, but they are most definitely building madness. Building Madness is a brand new 1930s screwball comedy penned by USA TODAY bestselling author and Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts Kate Danley.

Lubitsch Can't Wait

Author : Ivana Novak
Publisher : Slovenian Cinematheque
ISBN 13 : 9789616417846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Lubitsch Can't Wait written by Ivana Novak and published by Slovenian Cinematheque. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The contributions collected in this book examine Lubitsch's best Hollywood pictures from the 1930s and '40s--Trouble in paradise, Design for living, Ninotchka, To be or not to be, and Cluny Brown--to demonstrate that comedy, at its best, is not merely a matter of providing comic relief."--Page 4 of cover.

Romantic Comedy

Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231503385
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Comedy written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 145 pages. 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).

Romantic Comedy in Hollywood

Author : James Harvey
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306808326
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Comedy in Hollywood written by James Harvey and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1998-03-22 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Body in Hollywood Slapstick

Author : Alex Clayton
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476607214
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Body in Hollywood Slapstick written by Alex Clayton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, many Hollywood slapstick films can be understood as comic meditations on the place and nature of the human body. Focusing on the works of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy, among others, this book examines ways that the body represents or interacts with the mind, setting, voice and machines in slapstick films. Also covered are female performances in slapstick and brutality and suffering in the slapstick tradition.

Passing Strange

Author : Ellen Klages
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 0765389517
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange written by Ellen Klages and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages, and a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic” experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet. Six women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Art of the Cut

Author : Steve Hullfish
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 104003649X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Art of the Cut written by Steve Hullfish and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of the widely acclaimed Art of the Cut book published in 2017. This follow-up text expands on its predecessor with wisdom from more than 360 interviews with the world’s best editors (including nearly every Oscar winner from the last 30 years). Because editing is a highly subjective art form, and one that is critical to the success of motion picture storytelling, it requires side-by-side comparisons of the many techniques and solutions used by a wide range of editors from around the world. That is why this book compares and contrasts methodologies from a wide array of diverse voices and organizes that information so that it is easily digested and understood. There is no one way to approach editorial problems, so this book allows readers to see multiple solutions from multiple editors. The interviews contained within are carefully curated into topics that are most important to film editors and those who aspire to become film editors. The questions asked, and the organization of the book, are not merely an academic or theoretical view of the art of editing but rather the practical advice and methodologies of actual working film and TV editors, bringing benefits to both students and professional readers. The book is supplemented by a collection of downloadable online exclusive chapters, which cover additional topics ranging from Choosing the Project to VFX. In addition to the supplementary chapters, access to the full-color, full-resolution images printed in the book—and other exclusive images—is included.

Calvin Cobb

Author : Roy Underhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990623021
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Calvin Cobb written by Roy Underhill and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Underhill of PBS's 'The Woodwright's Shop' has written what could be the world's first-ever woodworking novel: 'Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker!' It's a screwball comedy set in 1937 about a woodworker who heads the U.S. government's agricultural 'Broadcast Research' division. Along with his staff of four women (all severely injured WWI volunteers), Calvin studies 'broadcast seed, nutrient and amendment distribution technology and practice' -- that is, what happens when the poop actually hits the fan. But the four women are more interested in developing the world's first supercomputer (using abandoned punch-card machines), and Calvin is more interested in woodworking ... and in one particular woman: Kathryn Dale Harper, host of the radio program 'Homemaker Chats.' How best to woo her? Why, a radio show: 'Grandpa Sam's Woodshop of the Air!' It's an almost-overnight sensation (for measured drawings, write to 'Grandpa Sam's' and be sure to include a 3 cent stamp to cover the cost of duplication). But -- as Calvin discovers -- success breeds jealousy ... a dangerous thing when one's enemy has friends in high places. Can Calvin and his friends save the world through woodworking, one listener at a time? Perhaps -- but first, they'll have to save themselves from Nazis, the clutches of the FBI, bureaucracy and wooden legs that break at inopportune times

The Art of Bee Movie

Author : Jerry Beck
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811859516
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Bee Movie written by Jerry Beck and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Art of Bee Movie' explores the artistic vision upon which the film was built, featuring fascinating concept art, full-colour pastels, pencil sketches, models, maquettes and more.

Funny: The Book

Author : David Misch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1557839662
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Funny: The Book written by David Misch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FUNNY: THE BOOK - EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT COMEDY