Romantic Comedy

Romantic Comedy

Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre

  • Autor: McDonald, Tamar Jeffers
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231503389
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231503389
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2007
  • Mes: Abril
  • Idioma: Anglés

Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s. A final chapter traces the lasting influence of these earlier forms within current romantic comedies. Films include: Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You've Got Mail (1998).

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Romantic Comedy and Genre
  • 2 Screwball Comedies
  • 3 The Sex Comedy
  • 4 The Radical Romantic Comedy
  • 5 The Neo-Traditional Romantic Comedy
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Appendices
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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