Study On American Comedy Of The Sexes

Comedy of the sexes refers to the comedy which takes relationship between the sexes as the main narrative. American comedy of the sexes can be divided into many small sub- genres: Screwball comedy, romantic comedy, youthful love comedy, etc. Though there are a large number of outstanding works among American comedy of the sexes and occupy an important historical status, the study on it is still in the pioneering status. There is a lack of the necessary basic research on the significant directors, production, sub-genres, characteristics, comedy mechanism, ideology, or development of it.This dissertation analyzes not only the development, the characteristics and the law of development, but also the interaction between the films with the society and culture. This dissertation also explores the development history of American comedy of the sexes, and comedy strategy or style from the perspective of aesthetics, narratology. The study is based upon the film genre theory, ideologiekritik, feminist criticism, structuralism narratology, Sigmund Freud's theory of humor, Bakhtin's carnival theory.Chapter one explore the development history and individuality of the sub- genres, then chapter two and three explore the universality such as comedy strategy and plot mode for the American comedy of the sexes, chapter four explore the hidden ideology nature.First, the innovation lies in the process for conducting a more systematic study for the first time, and first to propound the development of American comedy of the sexes is a process from carnivalization gradually to the orthodox tradition. Second, the innovation lies in the study on comedy mechanism and comedy strategy for American comedy of the sexes, and the comedy mechanism is the transformation from libidinal impulses to humor, gender struggle, and cross-dressing is the comedy strategy for it.I advance some plot modes of it such as pursue, competition, salvation, permit, oppose, become reconciled, have an affair, running from wedding ceremony, etc.Thirdly, there is a detailed analysis on the ideology of American comedy of the sexes. Gender relations are very important "ideological replacement" which embodies the mainstream ideology by invisible writing. Ideological confrontation and conflict is to be replaced by gender struggle in a comedy manner and, the integration of gender is used as a symbolic solution to class contradictions. It is also engaged in the reproduction of gender order of androcentrism.