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Marriage and Its Representations in Classical Hollywood Comedy, 1934–1945: Stanley Cavell, the Concept of Skepticism, and Kierkegaard’s Legacy

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dc.creatorEl-Khoury, Toufic
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T16:53:46Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T16:53:46Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the questions of marriage and divorce as discussed by Stanley Cavell in his study of Classical Hollywood comedies, dubbing what he considered as a popular subgenre of the American comedy of the thirties and forties: the “comedy of remarriage”. We will focus on Cavell’s analysis of a series of films, and the way these comedies belong to a specific American school of thought, with a case study of The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, US 1937). We will then try to identify, in Cavell’s original approach of marriage and divorce in the light of his discussion of philosophical skepticism, traces of Kierkegaard’s moral legacy, by way of Wittgenstein’s influence on the American thinker.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19477
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/124
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20667
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectMarriageen
dc.subjectRepresentationsen
dc.subjectClassical Hollywood Comedyen
dc.subjectSkepticismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personStanley Cavell
dc.subject.personSøren Kierkegaard
dc.titleMarriage and Its Representations in Classical Hollywood Comedy, 1934–1945: Stanley Cavell, the Concept of Skepticism, and Kierkegaard’s Legacyen
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local.coverpage2023-05-17T19:07:45
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/124
local.source.epage37
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitle"Who, Being Loved, Is Poor?" Material and Media Dimensions of Weddings
local.source.spage23
local.source.volume4
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118893343
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118562002
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725020
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6512

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