Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films

In Conversation with Stanley Cavell

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Kraft, Elizabeth

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262 Seiten

Englisch

Taylor & Franciserschienen am20.09.2016

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.mehr

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KlappentextIn Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4724-8458-1

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

FormatGenäht

Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr2016

Erscheinungsdatum20.09.2016

Seiten262 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 231 mm, Dicke 20 mm

Gewicht522 g

Artikel-Nr.39095929

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GenreTV/Film/Musik/Theater

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Prologue: The Reason and the Rhyme 1. Something from Nothing: Marriage, Conversation, and the Tragicomic Plot2. The Thin Man of Mode 3. Whippoorwills, Gypsies, and Fantasies of the Night: Aphra Behn´s The Rover and Frank Capra´s It Happened One Night4. Luck, Be a Lady: Aphra Behn, Preston Sturges, and the Ethics of Genre 5. Playing and Not Playing: William Wycherley´s The Country Wife and Howard Hawks´s Bringing Up Baby6. Forgotten Men: William Wycherley´s The Plain Dealer and Gregory La Cava´s My Man Godfrey7. Provisos and Reprieves: William Congreve´s The Way of the World and Howard Hawks´s His Girl Friday8. Happily Ever After? The Awful Truth about Careless Husbands Epilogue: Hope Springs Eternalmehr