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Title: Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 0-674-73906-X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book for lovers of classical American movies.
Comment: The goal of this book is to show that the classic American film comedies of the 30's and 40's are worthy of the best criticism. The author succeeds. If you love movies, and want to think about them seriously, this is your book. The films in it star Hepburn, Grant, Tracy, Gable, Stanwyck. This is a sophisticated book for a sophisticated film audience. The author is one of America's leading philosophers. Cavell brings his knowledge of concepts of friendship, conversation, gender, parenting, sexuality, fun, and adventure to bear on each of the romantic comedies he discusses. The genre explored here continues in GROUNDHOG DAY, FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, ALL OF ME, JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO. This book is serious, and well worth it. It explores everything important to every romantic relationship. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: A critical appreciation of film's greatest romantic comedies
Comment: Cavell identifies the "comedies of remarriage," those romantic comedies and comic romances that lit the screens and the hearts of the audiences of the 1930's and 40's. With the mind of a philosopher and scholar and the passionate appreciation of a true fan, he examines classic romantic comedies (and comic romances), including "The Lady Eve," "The Awful Truth," and "The Philadelphia Story." In a classical context (he compares the role of the woods in Shakespeare to the role of Connecticut in "Bringing Up Baby") he manages to illuminate the films without disturbing the gossamer that holds them together. The best that can be said is that he does justice to these lovely films, and makes us understand how smart we were to adore them
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Title: The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 067496196X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1980 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 0226098168 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges by James Harvey ISBN: 0306808323 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Disowning Knowledge : In Seven Plays of Shakespeare by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 0521529204 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s by Elizabeth Kendall ISBN: 0815411995 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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