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Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference
Wes D. Gehring
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Description for Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference
Hardback. This study demonstrates how screwball and romantic comedy are two distinct genres, and it highlights pivotal social and artistic changes that have impacted both genres. It includes over 60 titles of both types of comedy dating from the 1930s to the 21st century, along with some movie stills. Series: Studies in Film Genre. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Series
Studies in Film Genre
Condition
New
Weight
445g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810844247
SKU
V9780810844247
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About Wes D. Gehring
Wes D. Gehring is Professor of Film at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, and an Associate Media Editor of USA Today Magazine. He is the author of 16 critically acclaimed books including individual volumes on the comedy genres of populism, comedy, personality comedian, dark comedy, and screwball comedy. His other books include biographies of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, W.C. ... Read more
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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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