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screwball: a standalone construct

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Film studies

A fast, absurd romantic comedy genre

In film studies the screwball comedy is a genre of 1930s–40s Hollywood romantic comedy marked by fast overlapping dialogue, reversals of social and gender roles, and courtship played as farce, often as a couple's remarriage or reconciliation. Cavell's Pursuits of happiness: The Hollywood comedy of remarriage and Rothman's chapter The screwball comedy set out the genre's conventions and its place in American film. The referent is a cultural genre defined by narrative and stylistic conventions, sharing with a breaking pitch only the word screwball for something zany.[1][2]

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A film genre defined by its narrative and stylistic conventions
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Identified by genre conventions: rapid dialogue, role reversal, and farcical courtship

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References

  1. Cavell, S. (1981). Pursuits of happiness: The Hollywood comedy of remarriage. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674739062
  2. Rothman, W. (2011). The screwball comedy. In The Wiley-Blackwell history of American film. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470671153.wbhaf030

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