Post-Depression Tragedy
____________________________________________________ The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. Oscar Wilde; The Importance of Being Earnes t ____________________________________________________ Depression/Comedy Part II: Are you Being Funny? Last January (a year ago!) I launched a film series that I called Depression/Comedy . As I said at the time, film-makers of the 1930s made a conscious decision to make their films as positive and enjoyable as possible, in an effort to help the country get through a very difficult and painful decade. Putting that series together was a genuine pleasure for me, and allowed me to showcase some of my all-time favourite films. This year, I want to look at what happened next . You might think of this as Depression/Comedy without the Comedy. Not that this season is going to be depressing . Not remotely. Like Depression/Comedy , this is going to be a celebration of a very specific period in the history of Cinema. ...