Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference (Studies in Film Genre): 1 (Studies in Film Genres)

Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference (Studies in Film Genre): 1 (Studies in Film Genres)

by Steve Bell (Foreword), Wes D. Gehring (Author)

Synopsis

Including over 60 titles each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930's 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 16 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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Edition: Annotated
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 16 Oct 2002

ISBN 10: 0810844249
ISBN 13: 9780810844247

Media Reviews
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. * CHOICE *
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Author Bio
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. Fields, and the Marx Brothers.