Imagining Identity: From Molière’s comedy to Howard Hawks and Frank Capra
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Trasvasestlc.vi5.14524Keywords:
comedy, imagined identity, screball comedy, classical cinema, Hollywood, film analysisAbstract
Comedy plays with the transcendent importance of identity. An awareness of dramatic performance is a starting point in the quest for happiness. Identity transference is a feature of both traditional and modern relationships. This text proposes a comparative reading of certain aspects of Molière’s Le malade imaginaire, Howard Hawks’ Twentieth Century and Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night. Its starting point is a comic resource based on the adoption of a temporary and imagined identity by the character. The psychological liberation born of this new identity is related to a crisis that can be understood within the framework of the remarriage comedy studied by Stanley Cavell. The conclusion points out that the language of traditional comedy facilitates the understanding of the subversive potential of the modern subject and suggests that romantic conflicts can be understood or overcome by the imaginative responses of the characters.
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