Pursuits of Happiness
A Reading of The Lady Eve
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4270733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley Cavell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 581 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468930 |
| OpenAlex | W2321673149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
T _HIS ACCOUNT of my experience of Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve is shaped around two claims. The first claim is that this film is one of six or seven main films constituting a genre of Hollywood talkies of thirties and forties. I shall call genre the comedy of remarriage. Its other main instances are It Happened One Night, His Girl Friday, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, and Adam's Rib; and I will also, for reasons given elsewhere,1 feel free to include Bringing Up Baby. I am for myself satisfied that this group of films constitutes principal group of Hollywood comedies after advent of sound and therewith one definitive achievement in
Art · Happiness · Linguistics · Literature · Reading (process) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |