Green World: A Fantasy of a La La Land
So as I was reading through the literary pieces from Northrop Frye and Stanley Cavell, I couldn’t help but take a focus on the idea… Read More »Green World: A Fantasy of a La La Land
Blog Post 4 (due 5 PM Wednesday 19th February)
Week 4 Screwball Comedies of Romance, Sex and Remarriage
Required Reading:
Northrop Frye, “The Argument of Comedy,” English Institute Essays (New York:
Columbia, 1949), 58-73.
Stanley Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard, 1981), 1-8, 16-26, 30-34.
On Homer and Marge’s Romance and Remarriage – Rebeca Ravara
Stanley Cavell’s Pursuits of Happiness presents the genre of remarriage as a subgenre of romantic comedy starting around the 1930s. Even then, it has its precedents… Read More »On Homer and Marge’s Romance and Remarriage – Rebeca Ravara
My Best Friend’s Tragedy…? *spoilers*
In “The Argument of Comedy”, Frye refers to classical and Shakespearean comedies to explain his point that the same situations can be portrayed in both… Read More »My Best Friend’s Tragedy…? *spoilers*
Cavell and the City
The Sex and the City series perfectly illustrates the story tropes of post-Depression romantic visual media that Stanley Cavell describes in Pursuits of Happiness. SATC… Read More »Cavell and the City
Gender in Shakespeare Adaptations
When reading Northrop Fry’s The Argument of Comedy a particular passage stuck out to me. Fry states: “The association of this symbolism with the death and… Read More »Gender in Shakespeare Adaptations
The ocean is six miles deep
Submarine (2010) involves two different but interconnected romantic plotlines. Firstly, the story of the protagonist, Oliver, and his new girlfriend Jordana, and secondly, Oliver’s parents.… Read More »The ocean is six miles deep
one shall not be converted in a pink and blue place.
So, this is the complete antithesis of what the articles are saying but I’m going to brave talking about it anyway. Two of the main… Read More »one shall not be converted in a pink and blue place.
Old Comedy in an old city
The film Roman Holiday embodies many aspects of comedy as written about in the introduction of Stanley Cavell’s book: “Pursuits of Happiness.” The most obvious… Read More »Old Comedy in an old city
2004 as the ‘green world’: 13 Going on 30 and New Comedy
Frye writes: “Thus the action of the comedy begins in a world represented as a normal world, moves into the the green world, goes into… Read More »2004 as the ‘green world’: 13 Going on 30 and New Comedy
Crazy Rich New Comedy
Northrop Frye discusses comedy within Greek theatre. In “The Argument of Comedy” they explain how the “Greeks produced two kinds of comedy”: Old Comedy and… Read More »Crazy Rich New Comedy