screwball comedy

screwball comedy
  a type of highly-verbal comedy prevalent in 1930's Hollywood, and typified by frenetic action, verbal wit and wisecracks (substituting or serving as a metaphoric euphemism for sex), a battle of the sexes with conflict that is ultimately resolved - all elements that serve as important plot points.
  Examples: Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) and Hawks' Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940); My Man Godfrey (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Sturges' The Palm Beach Story (1942), and Cukor's The Philadelphia Story (1940).

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  • Screwball-Comedy — bezeichnet eine spezielle Unterart der Filmkomödie Hollywoods, die ihren Höhepunkt von Mitte der 1930er bis Anfang der 1940er Jahre erlebte. Der englische Slang Ausdruck „Screwball“ beschreibt eine Person mit eigenartigen bzw. skurrilen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Screwball Comedy — bezeichnet eine spezielle Unterart der Filmkomödie Hollywoods, die ihren Höhepunkt von Mitte der 1930er bis Anfang der 1940er Jahre erlebte. Der englische Slang Ausdruck „Screwball“ beschreibt eine Person mit eigenartigen bzw. skurrilen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • screwball comedy — UK US noun [countable/uncountable] [singular screwball comedy plural screwball comedies] cinema a film whose characters are silly and unreasonable in a funny way, or this type of film Thesaurus: films and type …   Useful english dictionary

  • Screwball-Comedy —   [ skruːbɔːl kɔmɪdi; englisch, eigentlich »Spinnerkomödie«] die, / s, Bezeichnung für die amerikanische Filmkomödie der 1930er und 1940er Jahre, deren männliche Helden spleenig oder bis zur Verrücktheit in eine Idee verrannt kaum noch… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • screwball comedy — screwball .comedy n AmE a film or television programme that is funny because crazy things happen …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • screwball comedy — noun count or uncount a movie whose characters are silly and unreasonable in a funny way, or this type of movie …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Screwball comedy — Carole Lombard une des reines de la screwball comedy dans La Joyeuse Suicidée (1937) La screwball comedy est un sous genre de la comédie hollywoodienne. Bien qu’aucune dé …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Screwball Comedy — Infobox Album Name = Screwball Comedy Type = studio Artist = Soul Flower Union Released = July 25, 2001 Recorded = Genre = J Rock Length = Label = Respect Record Producer = Reviews = Last album = This album = Screwball Comedy Next album =… …   Wikipedia

  • screwball comedy — UK / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms screwball comedy : singular screwball comedy plural screwball comedies cinema a film whose characters are silly and unreasonable in a funny way, or this type of film …   English dictionary

  • Screwball comedy film — The screwball comedy is a subgenre of the comedy film genre. It has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring film genres. It first gained prominence in 1934 with It Happened One Night , and, although many film scholars would agree that… …   Wikipedia

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