Estrategias narrativas en el cine cómico norteamericano de guerra submarinaEl caso de Operación Pacífico (Blake Edwards, 1959)
ISSN: 2014-668X
Year of publication: 2022
Issue Title: Filmhistoria Online
Volume: 32
Issue: 1
Pages: 136-163
Type: Article
More publications in: Filmhistoria online
Abstract
The wartime comedy of submarine warfare is characterised by relativising the halo of the fearsome weapon that characterises these vessels, and placing at the service of humour a story model that radiates from the characteristics of the war drama of combat under the surface of the sea. Confinement, domesticity, or genre bias are some of the resources that Operation Petticoat (Blake Edwards, 1959) appropriates to achieve comedy. This article aims to contextualize Operation Petticoat in the history of cinema, to establish its link with the historical fact and to identify its different narrative strategies and semantic resources.