It Happened One Night
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Beschreibung
Its most famous prop is a blanket, and its star endorsement was that real men do not wear undershirts. The humble and even corny touchstones of Frank Capra's Academy-Award winning 1934 comedy It Happened One Night belie its power and consequential status in the history of classic Hollywood cinema. Likewise, the simple blanket and missing undershirt suggest both the gritty materiality and social enormity of what is at stake--bedding and skin, class and sex--in this film set in Depression-era America.
This book-length treatment of It Happened One Night draws on its critical heritage as well as its multiple historical contexts so that students can best appreciate this film's textual, historical, cultural, and generic dimensions. Focus points will be the issues and topics which provoke in students strong contradictory responses to this film. Students immediately recognize and enjoy this screwball comedy's familiarity, most obviously from the romantic comedy films they know. The volume is especially helpful because it also helps students identify the structures the film shares with fairy tales and Shakespearean comedy, so they can be persuaded that some of the film's pleasures can be understood with formalist and structuralist theories.
Through mad-cap action, spunky heroines, gender politics, and class/gender conflicts, It Happened One Night invites discussion of film history, the studio system, and the problems posed by sound cinema for early-1930s censorship codes.
A movie that swept the 1934 Academy Awards and captivated Depression-era America, It Happened One Night challenged the ways Americans imagined marriage, romance, gender, and class difference. This book examines key scenes and formal features of It Happened One Night, and explores its lasting importance in film history and in cultural studies.
* Consideration of the film's role in establishing the genre of the romantic comedy film
* Investigations into the film's persistent sexuality and its creativity in avoiding Depression-era censorship
* Establishment of the cultural, economic, and political context of a film that directly addresses the Depression and class issues
* Exploration of how the film invokes and develops the stardom of Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert and how this stardom intersects with the film's topics of gender, genre, sexuality, and class
Autor*in
Linda Mizejewski
Themen in »It Happened One Night«
Cultural Studies Film Film Theory Filmtheorie Kulturwissenschaften Medienkritik Social Identity Sociology Soziale Identität Soziologie