Bringing Up Baby – A Screwball Comedy

Bringing Up Baby (1938) is a great example of the type of film that became possible once sound came to movies. This movie is considered a screwball comedy, which is known for witty dialogue, fast talking, and independent heroines. Susan Vance’s baby is a leopard in the film

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Bringing Up Baby, as classical Hollywood film, also represents an increasingly dominant form of narrative that existed in the 1930s and 1940s. There structure includes 3 basic features (which we see in Bringing Up Baby) .. 1) the narrative focuses on one or two central characters. 2) these characters move a linear plot forward.. and 3) the action develops according to a releastic cause and effect logic.

Overall we can see that Bringing Up Baby shows some of the new advancements Hollywood made in film in the late 1930s and 1940s.

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