His Girl Friday

The films Vertigo and His Girl Friday, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks respectively, are good representations of classical cinema. A stigma associated with classical cinema is the film’s portrayal of women. Feminist film theorists believe that the male protagonist play a more prominent role while women are only something to be looked at and acted upon. Both films possess a male and a female protagonist. His Girl Friday casts Cary Grant as a cunning newspaper editor named Walter Burns

Within the diegesis, the woman often appears as an object to be looked at and acted upon, while the male protagonist is usually granted a more active role, both in terms of his agency in the narrative, and in terms of his enunciative authority. This hypothesis is backed up by elements of two films studied this semester: His Girl Friday by Howard Hawks (1940) and Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder (1944). This is seen through the supporting role that the main female characters take in the movies, the

This peer-reviewed journal article discusses how the film His Girl Friday is able to convey both comedic and melodramatic moods coherently and simultaneously. Walters highlights the lighter, witty exchanges between Walter and Hildy and juxtaposes these scenes against the darker realities of a morally ambiguous press. Conversations full of innuendos point to a romantic comedy with a “re-marriage plot” and showcase gender politics, but melodramatic moments such as Molly jumping out of a window focus

His Girl Friday is one of the prominent "screwball comedies" there is today. Some of the characteristics of this comedic film have been lost, while others are still shown in today's films. Some of theses characteristics still shown are, the contrast between the rich and the middle class in romantic comedies. This shown when Walter makes a proposition to Bruce about getting an insurance plan. When Bruce draws up and finishes the insurance plan, Walter gives him a big check. This shows that Walter

narrative. They are seemed to be the more superior character while the women have a much more supporting role. The same is true to the 1940 comedy His Girl Friday and the 1958 thriller Vertigo. In both films, the image of the woman is important, as well as their role in the film. The image of the woman is highly sophisticated, proper, and simple. Throughout His Girl Firday, our leading female character, Hildegard “Hildy” Johnson, played by Rosalind Russell, was struggling to keep her current persona of

Research Question: How does His Girl Friday stay within the bounds of the Hays Code while challenging the culture of censorship in United States? Milberg, Doris. The art of the screwball comedy: madcap entertainment from the 1930s to today. McFarland, 2013. Milberg’s book dives into the popular screwball comedy genre that arose in the 1930s. The first few chapters discuss the structure and major attributes of screwball comedies, highlighting the clever dialogue, battle of the sexes, and physical

The magazine article describes the stark contrast in the portrayal of female sexuality between pre-Code and post-Code movies. Pre-Code movies are flagrantly sexual; although some contemporary film critics believe that women were simply embracing their sexual freedom through these pre-code films, the marketing for many of these brazenly sexual films often included derisive comments from males, suggesting that the intent of overt sexuality in films was more crude. Post-code films often used screenwriting

The Friday after Thanksgiving is everything from a bargain hunter’s dream come true to a husband’s worst nightmare. Since the early to mid-sixties it was been given the name “Black Friday.” Black Friday is day where stores around the country open their doors early to welcome the start of the Christmas shopping season. This is the day if you get to the mall by five a.m., you are late and will not find a parking place. It is the same day where you start off by being cussed by a pregnant woman,

during the observation will be used to draw conclusion about the specific social interaction and how it may relate to all social interactions in general. TGI-Friday Date Night This observational study took place at the TGI-Fridays located at Arundel Mills in Hanover, Maryland on two different occasions. The first was on Friday May 2nd 2014, between 8:00 and 9:30 pm. The restaurant was full of people and the atmosphere was jovial. There was an array of people for older professional people

Rosary High on Friday night, Chris was hanging out with his friends Tyler and Jack by the bathrooms. When the game was about to start, they all went to use the bathroom. As they were about to leave, a group of students came in and saw Jack washing his hands. One of the guys in the group named Cameron started pushing Jack between his friends and asking him “Hey fag, aren’t you in the wrong bathroom?” “It’s not really your concern what bathroom I use.” said Jack. Then Jack and his friends walked out