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Tempi der Bewegung : Modi des Gefühls
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience's emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. Exchanges of blows, puns, and verbal acrobatics are embedded in a complex composition of voices, facial expressions, gestures, and visual constructions. The audience experiences and enjoys combat and rage as an elegant pas de deux.


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Tempi der Bewegung : Modi des Gefühls
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What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience's emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. Exchanges of blows, puns, and verbal acrobatics are embedded in a complex composition of voices, facial expressions, gestures, and visual constructions. The audience experiences and enjoys combat and rage as an elegant pas de deux.


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Tempi der Bewegung : Modi des Gefühls
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What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience's emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. Exchanges of blows, puns, and verbal acrobatics are embedded in a complex composition of voices, facial expressions, gestures, and visual constructions. The audience experiences and enjoys combat and rage as an elegant pas de deux.


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Hollywood screwball comedy 1934-1945 : sex, love, and democratic ideals
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ISBN: 9781501389313 1501389319 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury Academic

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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 thematic; stylistic and aesthetic; and sociological."--Provided by publisher.


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La Comédie Screwball hollywoodienne 1934-1945 : Sexe, amour et idéaux démocratiques
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ISBN: 2848324325 2848321792 9782848321790 Year: 2013 Publisher: Artois Presses Université

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Comment expliquer le succès considérable des comédies loufoques américaines des années 1930 ? Rencontres, coups de foudre, ruptures, divorces, remariages... Ces vaudevilles sentimentaux ont répondu aux attentes d’une classe moyenne en plein essor, avide de libéralisation des mœurs, par des intrigues audacieuses, un humour verbal et le recours aux recettes du burlesque muet. Dirigées par des spécialistes du comique (Hawks, LaCava, Leisen, Ruggles...), incarnées par les stars les plus marquantes de cette décennie (Claudette Colbert, Irene Dunne, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn... ), elles forment la comédie screwball, « sous-genre » prolifique de l’entre-deux-guerres, qui continue d’inspirer aujourd’hui la « comédie romantique » au cinéma. Elle s’est fixée deux missions contestataires : railler les normes sociales et les représentants de l’ordre établi, et faire un sort aux clichés de la représentation du masculin et du féminin. À la croisée des travaux récents sur le classicisme hollywoodien et le genre au cinéma, cette étude appuyée sur un corpus de cent trente films replace la comédie screwball dans son contexte institutionnel et l’envisage sous son aspect le plus marquant : sa fonction communicationnelle et sociale. Sévèrement contrôlés par la censure interne hollywoodienne, ces films ont développé une esthétique verbale et visuelle spécifique, qui se traduit par une rhétorique du contournement et de l’atténuation. Le genre délivre aussi un message politique, en participant au débat démocratique avec ses interrogations sur les questions d’intimité, d’espace privé et public. Le discours amoureux et conjugal y réaffirme les valeurs fondatrices de la société américaine : la liberté d’expression, le libre consentement et l’engagement contractuel.


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Hollywood screwball comedy 1934-1945 : sex, love, and democratic ideals
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ISBN: 9781501347610 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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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. Gregoire 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.


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Screwball comedy : a genre of madcap romance
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ISBN: 0313246505 Year: 1986 Publisher: London Greenwood

Romantic vs. screwball comedy : charting the difference
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ISBN: 9780810844247 0810844249 Year: 2002 Publisher: Lanham Scarecrow Press

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"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 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 sixty titles each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930s to the present, this research tool not only demonstrates how screwball and romantic comedies are two distinct genres but also highlights pivotal social and artistic changes that impacted both genres. The book includes sixteen black-and-white movie stills, countless quotations from selected films, an annotated bibliography, and a two-part filmography. It is an informative resource for film students and scholars and a thoroughly engaging read for film buffs."--BOOK JACKET.

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