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How Ephron Saved Romantic Comedies

By Robin Bates | Published: July 6, 2012

Nora Ephron draw on Woody’s Allen’s “nervous comedies” to save romantic comedies.

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Laughing at Male Anxieties–or Not

By Robin Bates | Published: March 19, 2010

Bringing Up Baby      Film Friday  This week I have been delivering a series of four lectures on “Women in Film” at the University of Ljubljana, where I was twice a visiting Fulbright lecturer.  Tuesday’s talk was originally to have been about Katharine Hepburn and screwball comedies, particularly Bringing Up Baby (1938).  Because people evinced an [...]

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