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2025
article
OpenAlex
Paul Matthews, Kathrina Glitre
Abstract: We used embeddings (numerical representations) from open-sourced language and image models to compare and contrast films in the "noir" and "neo-noir" genres with each other and with those in other genres, using as proxy sources the available plot summaries for text …
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2025
article
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
The concept of ambiguity is essential to understanding the Production Code’s impact on classical Hollywood cinema. Writing in 1931, Colonel Jason S. Joy, Head of the Studio Relations Committee (SRC...
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2025
article
OpenAlex
John F. Gibbs, Kathrina Glitre, Douglas Pye
In 1985, Brian Henderson described The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) as “perhaps the most outrageous comedy ever made in Hollywood” (1985/1986, 25). The morning after a military party to “kiss t...
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2021
article
OpenAlex
Paul Matthews, Kathrina Glitre
Abstract Genre plays an important role in the description, navigation, and discovery of movies, but it is rarely studied at large scale using quantitative methods. This allows an analysis of how genre labels are applied, how genres are composed and how these …
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2019
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
In her extended case study of Arsenic and Old Lace , Kathrina Glitre demonstrates how star persona affects characterization, outlining how casting, screenwriting, and performance shape an adapted property to suit particular star talents.
2016
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
This chapter is about the Hollywood actors Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who epitomised the adage that opposites attract. Sexual difference is not their only opposition: she is upper-class, while he is lower-class; she is liberal, he is conservative; she is Anglo-Saxon …
2016
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
It is difficult or impossible to define what a romantic comedy is because all Hollywood films (except some war films) have romance and all have comedy. While the pervasive presence of romance and comedy is undeniable, there are different levels of representational …
2016
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
This chapter explores the concerns and interests of the sex comedy film. There are several films that repeatedly acknowledge the sexual commodification of women. Most critics have recognised female virginity as the cycle's thematic core, but very few have engaged with the …
2016
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
When people remember Myrna Loy and William Powell, they inevitably think of their roles as Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man films. The Thin Man highlights the intimacy and companionship of married life and the film virtually introduces modern marriage …
2016
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
Comedy was in reality the most serious genre in Hollywood—in the sense that it reflected, through the comic mode, the deepest moral and social beliefs of American life. The Hollywood romantic comedy's articulation of the ideology of heterosexual love, marriage and desire …
2016
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive empirical material drawn from a Swedish context. …
2016
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Kathrina Glitre
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive empirical material drawn from a Swedish context. …