'Screwball comedy' diaporamas de présentation

Lost and Genre

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Coenism

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Screwball Comedy

Screwball Comedy. Madcap Romance and Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday. Screwball: Etymology. Screwball - American colloquialism appeared in the mid-1930s signifying ‘eccentric person) Derives from expressions such as ‘screw loose’ (being crazy) and ‘screwy’ (drunk)

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American Film Comedy

American Film Comedy . Screwball Comedies of the 1930s. Screwball Themes. Comic integration of outsiders (immigrants, other classes) and desire for assimilation. Exposing divisions in society through exaggeration but also working to heal those divisions.

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Film and Media

Film and Media . NARRATIVE AND GENRE . What is narrative? . Narrative is a word used to describe the plot or storyline of a film. Most mainsteam films follow a linear structure. At the beginning of the film the audience is introduced to the central characters.

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Screwball Comedy

Screwball Comedy. Why “screwball”?.

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