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The genre was given its name by the philosopher Staney Cavell, in a series of academic articles that later became a book, ''Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage''. Cavell argues that the genre represented Hollywood's crowning achievement, and that beneath all the slapstick and innuendo is a serious effort to create a new basis for marriage in mutual love-- religious and economic necessity no longer applying for much of the American middle class.

More recently, film critics A.O. Scott and David Edelstein both argued that Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind was a 21-century example of the genre.


FAMOUS COMEDIES OF REMARRIAGE



FURTHER READING

  • ''Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage'' (Harvard Film Studies, 1981) by Stanley Cavell .