Screwball komedisi

Screwball komedisi amerikalıların bulduğu bir komedi türüdür. Bu tür ABD'de yaşanan Büyük Depresyon döneminde yani 1930'ların başından 1940'ların başına kadar popülerliğini korumuştur. Bu türün birçok ikincil özelliği film noir türüyle benzerlik gösterir ama film noir'dan farklı olarak erkek ana karakterle olan ilişkisinde kadın karakter baskın bir durumdadır.^[1]

Screwball komedisi türünde önemli filmleri

• The Front Page (1931), Lewis Milestone
• Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ernst Lubitsch
• If I Had a Million (1932), Ernst Lubitsch
• It Happened One Night (1934), Frank Capra
• Twentieth Century (1934), Howard Hawks
• Hands Across the Table (1935), Mitchell Leisen
• She Married Her Boss (1935), Gregory La Cava
• Love on the Run (1936), W.S. Van Dyke
• Libeled Lady (1936), Jack Conway
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Frank Capra
• My Man Godfrey (1936), Gregory LaCava
• The Awful Truth (1937), Leo McCarey
• Easy Living (1937), Mitchell Leisen
• Nothing Sacred (1937), William A. Wellman
• I Met Him in Paris (1937), Wesley Ruggles
• Tovarich (1937), Anatole Litvak
• Breakfast for Two (1937), Alfred Santell
• Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), Ernst Lubitsch
• Bringing Up Baby (1938), Howard Hawks
• Holiday (1938), George Cukor
• Merrily We Live (1938), Norman Z. McLeod
• You Can't Take It with You (1938), Frank Capra
• Vivacious Lady (1938), George Stevens
• The Mad Miss Manton (1938), Leigh Jason
• Bachelor Mother (1939), Garson Kanin
• It's a Wonderful World (1939), W. S. Van Dyke
• Ninotchka (1939), Ernst Lubitsch
• Midnight (1939), Mitchell Leisen
• His Girl Friday (1940), Howard Hawks (The Front Page uyarlaması, 1931)
• Too Many Husbands (1940), Wesley Ruggles
• My Favorite Wife (1940), Garson Kanin
• Christmas in July (1940), Preston Sturges
• The Philadelphia Story (1940), George Cukor
• That Uncertain Feeling (1941), Ernst Lubitsch
• The Lady Eve (1941), Preston Sturges
• Ball of Fire (1941), Howard Hawks
• Rings on Her Fingers (1942), Rouben Mamoulian
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), Alfred Hitchcock
• The Palm Beach Story (1942), Preston Sturges
• To Be or Not to Be (1942), Ernst Lubitsch
• The More the Merrier (1943), George Stevens
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), Preston Sturges
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Frank Capra
• I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Howard Hawks

Bazı Screwball komedisi oyuncuları

• Jean Arthur
• Claudette Colbert
• Irene Dunne
• Katharine Hepburn
• Carole Lombard
• Ginger Rogers
• Barbara Stanwyck
• Gary Cooper
• Melvyn Douglas
• Clark Gable
• Cary Grant
• James Stewart

Kaynakça

1. Ken Dancyger, Jeff Rush (2006) Alternative Scriptwriting, Fourth edition, Chap. 7 Working with Genre I, The Screwball Comedy, pp.84-5 quotation:

   The screwball comedy is funny film noir that has a happy ending... The premise of the film is about the struggle in their relationship. During the course of the struggle, which is highly sexually charged, the maleness of the central character is challenged. The female is the dominant character in the relationship. This role reversion is central to the screwball comedy.

Diğer okumalar

• Screwball Comedy: Defining a Film Genre, Wes D. Gehring, 1983.

Dış bağlantılar

• Screwball Comedy Primer - Green Cine
• Home of the Screwball - University of Virginia
• Screwball Comedy - film reference
• Screwball Comedy - Everything2
• Screwball Comedy Film: Definition - wordiQ
• Great Directors: Mitchell Leisen - Senses of Cinema
• Head Over Heels - The Guardian
• (Fransızca) La Screwball Comedy - CINEMACLASSIC
• (Almanca) Screwball Comedies: Ein enzyklopädischer Artikel - University of Hamburg