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- Title
What Goes without Seeing: Marriage, Sex and the Ordinary in The Awful Truth.
- Authors
Macarthur, David
- Abstract
The article offers film criticism of the film "The Awful Truth," directed by Leo McCarey, starring Cary Grant. Topics include the notion of the ordinary in the works of philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, the relation of skepticism to the portrayal of marriage in the film, and the portrayal of the marriage between the characters Lucy and Jerry in the context of the comedy film.
- Subjects
AWFUL Truth, The (Film); MCCAREY, Leo, 1898-1969; GRANT, Cary, 1904-1986; MARRIAGE in motion pictures; CAVELL, Stanley, 1926-2018; WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig, 1889-1951; COMEDY films; SKEPTICISM
- Publication
Film-Philosophy, 2014, Vol 18, p92
- ISSN
1466-4615
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.3366/film.2014.0007