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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cavell, Stanley, 1926- Pursuits of happiness. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981 (OCoLC)562288609 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanley Cavell |
| ISBN: | 0674739051 9780674739055 067473906X 9780674739062 |
| OCLC Number: | 7553146 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Cons and pros: The Lady Eve -- Knowledge as transgression: It happened one night -- Leopards in Connecticut: Bringing up baby -- The importance of importance: The Philadelphia story -- Counterfeiting happiness: His girl Friday -- The courting of marriage: Adam's rib -- The same and different: The awful truth -- Appendix: Film in the university. |
| Series Title: | Harvard film studies. |
| Responsibility: | Stanley Cavell. |
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Abstract:
Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.
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