How does this fit into screwball comedy genre’s dominant ideology of “classlessness” on one hand, or laughing at the exploits of the upper class on the other?
(Question): Naremore argues that Hepburn’s social class (upper class, highly educated, daughter of a doctor and suffragette, who was one of the earliest proponents of birth control) “could be used as a weapon against her whenever she appeared too progressive” (174). How does this fit into screwball comedy genre’s dominant ideology of “classlessness” on one hand, or laughing at the […]
