{"product_id":"screwball-comedy-a-genre-of-madcap-romance-contributions-to-the-study-of-popular-culture-0313246505","title":"Screwball Comedy: A Genre of Madcap Romance (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0313246505\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gehring, Wes D.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReview?According to Gehring, screwball comedy is a film genre much different from traditional comedic forms--e.g., the antiestablishmentarian antics of the Marx Brothers or W.C. Fields. Gehring places much emphasis on the origins and evolution of the comic anti-hero, and provocatively presents and analyzes the relation between comedy and the anti-hero comedian. The change from the capable to the incompetent comic hero, the author contends, was due to relevance: in a world that is more irrational, the anti-hero faces perpetual frustration. Frank Capra receives much attention.... Among those directors Gehring discusses are Hawks, McCarey, Sturges, and LaCava; among the performers, Grant, Lombard, Dunne, Hepburn, Arthur, Douglas, and MacMurrary.... Public libraries and university collections.?-Choice\"According to Gehring, screwball comedy is a film genre much different from traditional comedic forms--e.g., the antiestablishmentarian antics of the Marx Brothers or W.C. Fields. Gehring places much emphasis on the origins and evolution of the comic anti-hero, and provocatively presents and analyzes the relation between comedy and the anti-hero comedian. The change from the capable to the incompetent comic hero, the author contends, was due to relevance: in a world that is more irrational, the anti-hero faces perpetual frustration. Frank Capra receives much attention.... Among those directors Gehring discusses are Hawks, McCarey, Sturges, and LaCava; among the performers, Grant, Lombard, Dunne, Hepburn, Arthur, Douglas, and MacMurrary.... Public libraries and university collections.\"-Choice\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51737953665312,"sku":"NEW0313246505","price":85.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61CHaKs2i1L_ceb793ec-4034-40e5-b6ae-a932d7143105.jpg?v=1779579057","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/screwball-comedy-a-genre-of-madcap-romance-contributions-to-the-study-of-popular-culture-0313246505","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}