| Description |
xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Surviving Love / Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto -- 2. Love Lies: Romantic Fabrication in Contemporary Romantic Comedy / Frank Krutnik -- 3. 'I Think I Could Fall in Love with Him': Victor/Victoria and the 'Drag' of Romantic Comedy / Steven Cohan -- 4. Murphy's Romance: Romantic Love and the Everyday / Deborah Thomas -- 5. Something Wild: Take a Walk on the Wild Side (But Be Home before Midnight) / Constanza del Rio -- 6. Time Trips and Other Tropes: Peggy Sue Got Married and the Metaphysics of Romantic Comedy / Bruce Babington -- 7. Working Girl: A Case Study of Achievement by Women? New Opportunities, Old Realities / Chantal Cornut-Gentille -- 8. Love and Other Triangles: Alice and the Conventions of Romantic Comedy / Celestino Deleyto -- 9. The Fever and the Itch: Matching Plots in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever / Isabel C. Santaolalla -- 10. Allison Anders's Gas Food Lodging: Independent Cinema and the New Romance / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn |
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11. Meg Ryan, Megastar / Peter William Evans |
| Summary |
"This book examines the rebirth of a staple Hollywood genre. Taking into account romantic comedy's current popularity and the genre's adaptability to changing historical circumstances, as well as its powerful tendency to contain and assimilate social changes, it explores the complex ways in which recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Comedy films -- United States.
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Love in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- Plots, themes, etc.
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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Motion pictures, American.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Romantic comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Deleyto, Celestino.
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Evans, Peter William.
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| LC no. |
99488332 |
| ISBN |
0748608850 |
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