Resumen de La comedia y la risa en el cine: Historias de amor y sexo en I was a male War bride
This essay attempts to counteract the excessive emphasis given in recent years to the separation between comedian comedy and romantic comedy in Hollywood cinema. Unlike Steve Neale, Frank Krutnik, Henry Jenkins, Kristine Karnick and others, I defend that laughter is an essential narrative element in romantic comedy. In order to prove this, I provide an analysis of Hawks’s I Was a Male War Bride as a romantic comedy which would make no sense without its many and very abstract complex comic moments.
