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Hollywood screwball comedy 1934-1945 : sex, love, and democratic ideals
Comédie screwball hollywoodienne. English
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"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 themati...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Grégoire Halbout ; translated from French by Aliza Krefetz
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- English
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- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
- ©2022
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- xvi, 333 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781501347610, 9781501347603, 9781501347627, 1501347616
- OCLC
- on1252961648, on1277182723
- Translation of: La comédie screwball hollywoodienne : 1934-1945 : sexe, amour et idéaux démocratiques.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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