Blog Post 4 (due 5 PM Wednesday 19th February)

When a couple’s “how they met” story takes 95 minutes to be told, it’s either a case of a couple’s friends trying desperately “not to… Read More »Twelve Years and Three Months

Drawing upon Northorp Frye’s distinction between Old and New Comedy, Stanley Cavell outlines a genre called the ‘comedy of remarriage’, which are romantic comedy films… Read More »Social reconciliation and ‘remarriage’ in The Parent Trap (1998)

Stanley Cavell, who named the comedy of remarriage genre, separates it from Frye’s Old and New Comedy by the fact that it focuses on getting… Read More »The Parent Trap – Cavell and Frye

In Frye’s account of comic resolution, the concluding “festival” stood out to me. In ancient Greek comedies, both an individual and a social issue are… Read More »Step Brothers: wedded lovers? (Alex Gold)

The depiction of culture, acceptance, and personal growth in My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s (2002) narrative reflects the idea that “there is a social as… Read More »Frye and My Big Fat Greek Wedding

I would never not immediately jump at the opportunity to discuss what is perhaps my favourite film of all time, 2010’s Aisha, which is the… Read More »(Re)marriage is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as… (Parthiv Chhabria)