It Happened One Night

Name: It Happened One Night
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ISBN: 9781405173889

ISBN-10: 1405173882

ISBN-13: 9781405173889

Edition: 2009

Authors: Linda Mizejewski

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What you really want to watch.There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere-they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces students to alternative classics that range from silent film to CSI. 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. Through mad-cap action, spunky…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.30" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Little Picture, Big Classic


Legends and a Legendary Hit


Adaptation: "Night Bus" to Sleeper Hit


Capra and Authorship



Rules and Unruliness: Romantic Comedy


Gender and Genre


Screwball Characters Meet Cute


Intimacy, Violence, and Marriage



Sex and Censorship: The Wavering Walls of Jericho


The Hays Office and the Production Code


Censorship and the Power of "It"


Constructing the Walls of Jericho


The Walls Tumble Down



Capra, Class, and the Runaway Heiress


Hollywood and the Great Depression


The Runaway Heiress


Capra and Class Politics



Stardom: Shirtless Gable, Classy Colbert


Cave Man and a Menace to Morals


"Who Do You Think You Are? Clark Gable?"


Tough Dame, Lovely Frog


The Runaway Bride


Notes


Works Cited


Index