Marylin Monroe: What are the politics of the Marylin Monroe persona, as demonstrated especially in Some Like it Hot?
Reading and Guidance: consult Richard Dyer, Heavenly bodies, Graham McCann’s biography of Monroe, and the essay by Andrew Britton on Cary Grant. consider the main elements of the monroe persona, how they are used and developed in Some Like it Hot – and other films, of course – and how they link to wider issues of gender, sexual, and cultural politics.
look at screwball comedy.
core reading: smith, ian “my name’s not chaplin…”, britton on cary grant and katherine hepburn; cavell on comedies of remarriage.
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