Romantic comedy

United States, 1994

TV show
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Episode number 5 of Series “American cinema”.
Breezy and silly to witty and intelligent, romantic comedies have been around since the 1930’s but the surface humour barely masked issues of gender and sexuality. This program reviews screwball comedies including “It happened one night” and “His girl Friday” and analyses more recent interpretations of the genre by directors like Nora Ephron and James Brooks.

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Credits

producer/director

Molly Ornati

production company

BBC

KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)

New York Center for Visual History

Duration

00:55:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1994

Appears in

American cinema

Group of items

American cinema

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

307204

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - History

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - United States - History

Comedy

Comedy → Screwball comedies

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Television

Television → Television programs

Television → Television programs → Television programs - United States

Television → Television series

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White and Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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