Award Date
5-1-2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
First Committee Member
Maile Chapman
Second Committee Member
Jessica Teague
Third Committee Member
Jarret Keene
Fourth Committee Member
Brett Levner
Number of Pages
54
Abstract
Screwball is a collection of poems and scenes formatted as a screenplay. The poems, a mix of landscape and persona poems, center on the themes of grief, time, and celebrity worship. The scenes offer a revisionist history to the plane crash in Goodsprings, Nevada on January 16, 1943 that killed actress Carole Lombard and twenty one others. This reimagining, in which the actress survives the crash, is framed as a screwball comedy from the 1940s, a medium dominated and perfected by the collection’s central figure, Carole Lombard, formerly Jane Alice Peters.
Keywords
Carole Lombard; Clark Gable; Nevada; Plane crash; Poetry collection; Screenplay
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Film and Media Studies
File Format
File Size
416 KB
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Repository Citation
Barnette, Nicholas, "Screwball" (2022). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 4359.
http://dx.doi.org/10.34917/31813236
Rights
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