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Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference: Studies in Film Genres

Autor Wes D. Gehring Cuvânt înainte de Steve Bell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2002
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810844247
ISBN-10: 0810844249
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 148 x 228 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:0224
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Scarecrow Press
Seria Studies in Film Genres

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Introducing the 1930s Depression origins of the sister genres of comic courtship-madcap screwball and the reality-based romantic comedy-Gehring shows how the two grew up into unique and contrasting types....Undergraduate and general collections.
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