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"It Happened One Night" 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. Full description
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Review:
"Filled with clearly explained theory, it is an exemplary guide for film students and teachers. Its shrewd reading of the film empowers the text; the meticulous research and subtle analysis is sophisticated enough for high level readers yet accessible enough for those new to the field. ... This book is not just for lovers of Capra, Gable, or even 'old films'--the concepts of gender, class, stardom, and censorship developed in this text are pertinent for any film buff." (M/C Reviews, April 2010)
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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.
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- PublisherWiley-Blackwell
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1405173890
- ISBN 13 9781405173896
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages152
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