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050 00 $aPN1995.9.C55$bB43 2002
049 $aXIMM
100 1 $aBeach, Christopher.
245 10 $aClass, language, and American film comedy /$cChristopher Beach.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2002.
300 $avii, 241 p. ;$c24cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.
505 0 $a1. A troubled paradise : utopia and transgression in comedies of the early 1930s -- 2. Working ladies and forgotten men : class divisions in romantic comedy, 1934-1937 -- 3. "The split-pea soup and the succotash" : Frank Capra's 1930s comedies and the subject of class -- 4. Is class necessary : Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks in the early 1940s -- 5. Desperately seeking status : class, gender, and social anxiety in postwar Hollywood comedy -- 6. Is there a class in this text : Woody Allen and postmodern comedy -- 7. Yuppies and other strangers : class satire and cultural clash in contemporary film comedy.
650 0 $aComedy films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSpeech and social status$zUnited States.
994 $aC0$bXIM