It Happened One Night

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 heroines, gender politics, and class/gender conflicts, It Happened One Night invites discussion of film history, the studio system, and the problems posed by sound cinema for early-1930s censorship codes.
• A strong case study for teaching American Depression Era history, and film genre development.

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List of contents

Introduction. 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

About the author

Linda Mizejewski is Professor of Women's Studies at Ohio State University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: L Mizejewski, Linda Mizejewski, Linda (Ohio State University Mizejewski, Mizejewski Linda
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2009
• EAN: 9781405173889
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-7388-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television; Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film; Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television; Wiley-Blackwell Film and Telev
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Films, cinema, United States of America, USA, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General