Addicted to fun: courtship, play and romance in the screwball comedy by Ruiz Pardos, Manuela

“…During the 1930s and early 1940s Hollywood produced a cycle of many romantic comedies -including titles like It Happened One Night (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Awful Truth (1938), Holiday (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940) and others- which have been grouped under the label of screwball comedy. In these narratives a new rhetoric largely based on concepts such as fun, eccentricity, adventure and partnership was articulated on the screen so as to visualize emerging patterns of coupledom and ultimately to define contemporary romantic and marriage ideals. …”
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Jane Austen in the 1940 silver screen: screwball comedy, translation and manipulation. by Ricelly Jáder Bezerra da Silva

“…Gehring’s (1983) studies about the film genre screwball comedy were used as well. The results confirm our hypothesis that the film narrative reinforces a romantic and comic content, as well as revealed that the film had a political function in its contexts of production and reception.…”
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Transfer of media characteristics in Preston Sturges’s screwball comedy Unfaithfully Yours (1948) by Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard

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Grégoire Halbout, Hollywood Screwball Comedy, 1934-1945, Sex, Love and Democratic Ideals by Karine Hildenbrand

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Imaginar la identidad: de la comedia de Molière a la screwball comedy de Howard Hawks y Frank Capra by Rebeca Romero Escrivá, Javier Alcoriza Vento

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Sullivan’s travels - Ascenção e queda de um sonhador americano by José Duarte

“…O presente trabalho pretende analisar o filme Sullivan’s travels (1941), de Preston Sturges, enquanto obra que se insere dentro do género da screwball comedy. Contudo, uma análise mais profunda irá revelar que Sturges consegue criar um filme em que vários géneros se cruzam, criando uma atmosfera interessante em que o espectador viaja pelo mundo do cinema através da personagem de J. …”
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Will they, won’t they? Dream sequences and virtual consummation in the series Moonlighting by Shannon Wells-Lassagne

“…The 1980s series Moonlighting was one of the first dramedies on the small screen; it took its cue from venerable genres like the screwball comedy or the hard-boiled novel (particularly The Thin Man) and translated them to television’s changing structures and aesthetics, participating in what has been termed the second Golden Age of television. …”
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Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, by Mari Ruti by Alice Guilluy

“…A number of works have sought to rehabilitate the genre by tracing its lineage back to the more prestigious screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s (Jeffers McDonald; Grindon).…”
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