Screwball comedies in the 1930s and 1940s conveyed sexual attraction through verbal battles.
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How Ephron Saved Romantic Comedies
Nora Ephron draw on Woody’s Allen’s “nervous comedies” to save romantic comedies.
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Laughing at Male Anxieties–or Not
Bringing Up Baby Film Friday This week I have been delivering a series of four lectures on “Women in Film” at the University of Ljubljana, where I was twice a visiting Fulbright lecturer. Tuesday’s talk was originally to have been about Katharine Hepburn and screwball comedies, particularly Bringing Up Baby (1938). Because people evinced an […]
