Romantic comedy: boy meets girl meets genre
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Columbia University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780231503389 (electronic bk.) MWT11860269, 0231503385 (electronic bk.) 11860269
LANGUAGE
English
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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 1970's. 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)
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