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The History of Cinematic Comedy

parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...

Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys and Theory of Drama

Willie is still angry because Al suddenly retired eleven years earlier, breaking up the act and, with it, his professional identit...

Elements of Screwball Film Comedy

legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...

Top Journalist Falters

Brian Williams, NBC news anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, was one of the most trusted journalists in mass media. Ev...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

Spiritual Journeys East and West: A Consideration of "Cold Mountain Poems" and The Divine Comedy

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

Dinner at Eight Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

and one-time suitor Oliver sell her stock in his company. Carlotta does not consider returning to the stage as an option to her fi...

Flannery O'Connor and Comedy

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

Using Comedy To Explore Social Issues

great deal of the humor arises from the plays comic premise, which calls tends to suggest that the title of the work is something ...

Comparison of Vaudeville Slapstick Comedy of Laurel and Hardy and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

This paper contrasts and compares Samuel Beckett's characters Didi and Estragon in Waiting for Godot with Laurel and Hardy in six ...

Political Reflections in 'The Inferno' and Divine Comedy of Dante

the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...

Film Genres Thriller and Comedy

An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...

'The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down' And 'The Great Mortality' - How People React To Catastrophe

no matter how harsh - are based within the foundation being forced to cope with unmitigated stress, fear and anger. Another simil...

The Bible, Koran, And Divine Comedy

the Bible - the Ten Commandments, the so-called Golden Rule, what civilized societies consider moral and immoral behaviors - all f...

Faith of Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy

In five pages this paper discuses how within the poetic narrative Dante reinforces the Christian faith attitudes and also embraces...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

The Theater and Its Use of Comedy

Funny women with a prominent role in the narrative are shared by many plays. This paper examines The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov, he...

Dante the Poet and Author in The Divine Comedy Part I

In five pages this paper discusses the author Dante Alighieri and his fictional alter ego Dante the poet in his epic in terms of t...

Aristophanes and Using Comedy as Commentary in The Clouds and Lysistrata

In twelve pages this paper considers how Aristophanes criticized the politics, morality, and society of his time through the use o...

John J. Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power The Tragedy of Great Power” by John J. Mearsheimer

actually benefits the economy of the United States? Anyone with any intelligence, or anyone who pays even the slightest bit of att...

Making Social Change Through Comedy

_Comedy in particular can be a window on social mores and history. This paper looks at the 1960s play A Funny Thing Happened on th...

Political Influences in Canto XXIV of The Divine Comedy

This article examines the influence of Florence, Italy's politics on Dante's writing, specifically in Canto XXIV of The Inferno. T...

Comedy Filmmaker Charles 'Little Tramp' Chaplinker

The filmmaking career of Charles Chaplin from the 'little tramp' movies to Modern Times in 1936 is explored in five pages. Six so...

Television Situation Comedies and Family Love Relationships

once mentioning the word "pregnant" in the script. This changed to some extent in the 1960s, but not as much as one might have ex...

Cinematic Classification of Documentaries, Comedies, and Dramas

expectations of the movies plot. The believability of characters is directly proportionate to the credibility of the plot. If a ...

Television Situation Comedy Married With Children and Family Dysfunction

do. "With Ozzie and Harriet, everyone felt guilty," said Barbara Cadow, a psychologist at U.S.C. School of Medicine. "With these...

American Family Depiction in Television Situation Comedies of the 1950s and 1960s

In fourteen pages this paper discusses TV sitcoms during this time period and how they portrayed the American family with past and...

'Grace Under Fire' A TV Comedy Consideration

In three pages the aggressive, superiority, and cognitive humor theories are applied to this ABC television sitcom. There is one ...

TV Situation Comedies and the Portrayal of Women

on society and human interactions. Even in family situations on evening sitcoms, the depiction of men and women and their roles ...