314 T2 comedy
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- basis of 1930s comedy
- comedy that is social critique of the system
- what was different about comedy between silent and sound
- after switch: social critique (exception: charlie chaplin)
- what were the types of comedy?
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1. screwball comedy
2. comedy of character
3. comedy of manners
4. social comedy - what are examples of screwball comedies
- classical farces, romantic comedies
- char of screwball comedy
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- invesigates the war between the sexes
- male status quo is dull and humorless -
what is the war between sexes?
what comedy is this -
- fast paced combination of witty dialogue and slapstick
- confusion & improbable situations
- romance = clash of opposite conservative professional male + independent female (endorses one over the other)
screwball comedy - what is film ex of screwball comedy
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- bringing up baby (howard hawks)
- fast and witty tempo (overlapping doalogue)
- confusion & improbable situations
- clash of opposites romance - who directed bringing up baby
- howard hawks
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what film has overlapping dialogue
how did it work
what comedy genre -
- bringing up baby
- increased tempo, doesnt overlap at important info
- screwball comedy (fast witty tempo) - pulp fiction's significance in screwball comedy
- refers to howard hawk's witty fast dialogue in bringin up baby
- waht type of comedy is his girl friday
- screwball comedy
- what type of comedy is closest to buster keaton + charlie chaplin
- comedy of character (character based)
- example of comedy of character
- keaton, chaplin, marx bros
- screwball comedy: what types of comedy did bustor keaton & chaplin have
- physical only
- characteristics of comedy of character
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- physical & verbal comedy types (unlike keaton/chaplin)
- look funny, talk funny, act funny
- disrupt the rigid repressed establishment -
which marx brother was the silent type
why was this important -
harpo
silent type
only physical comedy not verbal (like in silent film era) - what is comedy of cahracter about?
- look funny, talk funny*, act funny
- waht is the marx bros all about
- disrupting the status quo
- what was the horsefeathers clip about
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- making fun of broadway musicals (groucho at college)
- silent comedy (harpo)
- assault on establishment - who was the key director with comedy of character
- marx brothers
- who was the key director with screwball comedy
- howard hawks
- key director with comedy of manners
- ernst lubitsch
- comedy of manners
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- investigates "civilized" behavior to reveal pretense and hypocrisy (natural v. artificial)
- social institutions and conventions dehumanize - what 2 things is comedy of manners a tug of war between
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natural (good and true) v. artificial (insitutional rules & conventions)
natural is much better - what types of movies did ernst lubitsch do?
- big epics in europe, comedy of manners in us
- what types of movies did howard hawks do
- screwball comedy
- what types of movies did the marx brothers do
- comedy of character
- what was the purpose of the shop aroudn the corner clip
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you've got mail's earlier version
during the day: artificial, in letters your true self comes out -
purpose of to be or not to be
who directed
what genre -
shows who the nazis are (artificial) v. real life
dir. ernst lubitsch
comedy of manners -
purpose of ninotchka
who direted
what genre -
her job doesn't allow her to be human (has to remove artificiality to let natural romance bloom)
dir ernst lubitsch
comedy of manners - how was ninotchka marketed
- garbo laughs
- who directed the shop around the corner
- ernst lubitsch
- whats social comedy
- fish out of water