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Screwball Comedy

Why Theory

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The Screwball Comedies - Is the Code Still a Thing?

It was very popular in the mid fifties, especially because of one director. Stanley avel called some of these films the comedies of remarriage. The necessity of indirection leading to radical break is a big thing in all scrowball comedies. It does have a special place as the first piece of main stream media for people lookike in queer studies.

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