Date on Senior Honors Thesis
5-2019
Document Type
Senior Honors Thesis
Degree Name
B.A.
Department
Communication
Degree Program
College of Arts and Sciences
Author's Keywords
screenwriting; screenplay; feminism; glass ceiling; social progress; buddy comedy
Abstract
This screenplay attempts to reconcile the author's confusion on how to best enact social progress by examining and satirizing several competing feminist movements. Set in an off-kilter Los Angeles, the comedy tracks Alivia, a recent PhD grad who cannot leverage her education toward finding a job. In desperation, she joins a radical organization called the H.E.L.P. (Heroines for the Elimination of Loathsome Professors), which encourages her to take matters into her own hands.
Inverting tropes from buddy comedies, cop-shows, ghost stories, and Bond movies, the screenplay grapples with how women are meant to break the glass ceiling and it may never fully come to an answer. In its current form, the screenplay is messy and unfocused; it is the hope of the author that the screenplay shows the active process of integrating academic discourse into an extremely silly comedy.
Recommended Citation
Lutz, Bayne M., "H.E.L.P : A creative exercise in feminism and the buddy comedy." (2019). College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses. Paper 191.
Retrieved from https://ir.library.louisville.edu/honors/191
Lay Summary
This screenplay attempts to reconcile the author's confusion on how to best enact social progress by examining and satirizing several competing feminist movements. Set in an off-kilter Los Angeles, the comedy tracks Alivia, a recent PhD grad who cannot leverage her education toward finding a job. In desperation, she joins a radical organization called the H.E.L.P. (Heroines for the Elimination of Loathsome Professors), which encourages her to take matters into her own hands.
Inverting tropes from buddy comedies, cop-shows, ghost stories, and Bond movies, the screenplay grapples with how women are meant to break the glass ceiling and it may never fully come to an answer. In its current form, the screenplay is messy and unfocused; it is the hope of the author that the screenplay shows the active process of integrating academic discourse into an extremely silly comedy.
