Category: Blog Post 4 (due Friday Oct 5 by 5 PM)
Week 4 (8 October): Romantic Comedy and the Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Required Film: The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937)
Required Reading:
Northrop Frye, “The Argument of Comedy,” English Institute Essays (New York: Columbia,
1949), 58-73.
Stanley Cavell, “Introduction: Words for a Conversation” and “The Same and Different,”
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1981), 1-42, 229-263.