Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Arsenic and Old Lace - Screwball or Dark Comedy?

While researching my genre paper, I kept coming across Arsenic and Old Lace (a film I love), but sometimes it is classified as a screwball comedy and other sites call it a dark comedy.  I can see where both could be appropriate, but it seems more dark comedy than screwball. And now I wish I chose to write about dark comedies.

 It seems like you could make a valid argument for both sub-genres. Anyone else have any thoughts?

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