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    Hollywood screwball comedy 1934-1945 : sex, love, and democratic ideals (2022)
    London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic | [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing
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    gbv_1796989770
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: First edition
    Edition: Also published in print
    ISBN: 9781501347634 , 9781501347603
    Content: "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"--
    Note: Translation of: La comédie screwball hollywoodienne : 1934-1945 : sexe, amour et idéaux démocratiques , 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 , Also published in print , Mode of access: World Wide Web. , Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781501389313
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1501347624
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781501347627
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1501347608
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Halbout, Grégoire, 1958 - Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 ISBN 9781501347610
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781501389313
    Language: English
    Keywords: USA ; Screwball comedy ; Electronic books
    DOI: 10.5040/9781501347634
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    Hollywood screwball comedy 1934-1945 : sex, love, and democratic ideals (2022)
    London :Bloomsbury Academic,
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    almahu_BV047622006
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 328 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-501-34763-4 , 978-1-501-34760-3 , 978-1-501-34762-7
    Content: "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 [...]."
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-501-34761-0
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-501-38931-3
    Language: English
    Subjects: General works
    RVK:
    AP 52400
    Keywords: Screwball comedy
    DOI: 10.5040/9781501347634
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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