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legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
In eighteen pages the screwball comedy is examined in terms of its history and evolution with a discussion of their intentions alo...
romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...
A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares American Psycho (2000, directed by Mary Harron) and In Bruges (2008, directed by Martin...
The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...
This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...
In ten pages this paper examines Hawks' big screen contributions with an emphasis upon his screwball comedy classics Ball of Fire,...
water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...
both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...
a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...
This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...
Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...
This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
to be Kates surrogate is Angie Ostrowiski, who is characterized as "white trash," a high school dropout who has a common law marri...
They have decided to acquire it so that the airport can be expanded. Thus, the working class Kerrigan family is pitted against th...
three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...
not romantically involved. Jack is imitating a robot: his arms are bent at the elbows, hes bent at the waist and moving very stiff...
but she keeps her emotions in check so that she can carry off her masquerade as a man. When Rosalind confronts the Dukes accusat...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
This 8 page paper gives an overview of the works of Chinese film director Zhang Yimou. This paper includes discussions of four of ...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
An analysis of the element of tragedy in Ephesus as presented in this classic work by William Shakespeare. The author of this pap...
An analysis of the element of tragedy in this classic by William Shakespeare. Mistaken identity and familial relationships are de...
This seventeen page paper analyzes the intriguing characters in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. The paper emphasizes the critical...
plays make it clear that Shakespeare is being funny. However, one of the many examples of Shakespeares masterful skills is demonst...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
In ten pages this paper examines the tragedy and comedy elements that each exist in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespea...
Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...