It Happened One Night
Interventions: Studies in Film and Television
1. Auflage September 2009
152 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
1.Rules and Unruliness: Screwball Comedy and the Road Movie.
2. The Production Code and the Wall of Jericho.
3. Contexts: Capra, Class, and Depression-Era America.
4. Stardom: Gable and Colbert
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)
"Mizejewski is marvelously alert to the romance, sex, class
feeling and star power that made It Happened One Night a
landmark comedy. An indispensable guide to what "It" is
all about."
Maria DiBattista, Princeton University
"Linda Mizejewski's It Happened One Night, like
Frank Capra's, is tough-minded and tender, politically and
discursively astute, yet open to the humor and mystery of "young
people in love." Her command of the scholarship is
impressive, her prose is nimble and sharp. A landmark study
of a landmark film." Leland Poague, Iowa State
University
"What a wonderful read! Mizejewski's witty and
lucid study of It Happened One Night offers a knowledgeable
introduction not only to this important film but to the genre of
romantic comedy and the scholarship it has inspired."
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, University of Oregon