Screwball Comedies Return to the Historic Camelot Theatre inside the Palm Springs Cultural Center!

The annual Screwball Comedy Series is coming back to Palm Springs. Get ready for more laughs and lunacy with another season of fast-talking antics, outrageous plot twists, and unforgettable characters on the BIG SCREEN of the Historic Camelot Theatre inside the Palm Springs Cultural Center! Each screening includes live intros and Film Q + A’s with the Film Society of Screwball Comedy. Check schedules at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, but screenings are generally every other Sunday at 3pm.

About Screwball Comedies: Beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1950s, Screwball Comedies are a film subgenre of the Romantic Comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression. Famously, they satirize traditional love stories, often with female characters who dominate a romantic relationship with the male central characters, threatening  his masculinity as the two engage in a humorous battle of the sexes. There are secondary characteristics of Film Noir, another film genre, in many of the stories. Other elements of the Screwball Comedy include fast-paced, overlapping repartee, farcical situations, escapist themes, physical battle of the sexes, disguise and masquerade, and plot lines involving courtship and marriage.

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