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I love you but : romance, comedy and the movies / Cherry Potter.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.L6 P68 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Potter, Cherry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love in motion pictures.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 298 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen, 2002.
- Summary:
- In this brilliant and illuminating history of romance, comedy and the movies, Cherry Potter records how cinema has reflected changing assumptions about the relationship between men and women - a relationship in which the 'but' is always funnier, more intriguing and nearly as passionate as the 'I love you'. Using classic romantic comedies from the early thirties to the present, I Love You But... charts the shifting relations between the sexes as each new generation confronts the same age-old questions: What does it mean to be a man or a woman? What are our differences and what are our similarities? What makes us click? What are our hopes and fears when it comes to love and romance? What makes a good relationship? What makes us laugh? What makes us happy? What is it that men and women really want? But if the questions remain the same, the answers may change - and especially when economic, historical and political circumstances have altered so radically. From films such as It Happened One Night to Four Weddings and a Funeral, Potter observes how the impact of the second world war, feminism and the crisis of masculinity affected the expectations men and women had of each other - and the way this was reflected in the movies. At once a history of social change, a penetrating study of human relationships and an original survey of some of the most popular movies ever made, this fascinating book shows how and why romantic comedy continues to enthral, entertain and evolve with each decade.
- Contents:
- 1 It Happened One Night in the Thirties 1
- It Happened One Night 7
- Mr Deeds Goes to Town 17
- Bringing Up Baby 26
- Ninotchka 34
- 2 The Taming of the Shrew in the Forties 43
- His Girl Friday 49
- Woman of the Year 57
- No Time for Love 65
- Adam's Rib 74
- 3 Strong Men, Twin-sets and Billowing Skirts in the Fifties 84
- The Quiet Man 88
- Roman Holiday 97
- The Seven Year Itch 106
- Pillow Talk 114
- 4 Bad Boys and Nice Girls Who Say Yes in the Sixties 121
- The Apartment 125
- Sunday in New York 133
- The Graduate 141
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 150
- 5 Starting Over with Women Who Say No in the Seventies 159
- Diary of a Mad Housewife 163
- An Unmarried Woman 173
- Annie Hall 182
- Starting Over 191
- 6 Power and Power Dressing in the Eighties 200
- Crocodile Dundee 205
- Working Girl 214
- Crossing Delancey 223
- When Harry Met Sally 232
- 7 Fairytales and the Commitment Problem in the Nineties 242
- Strictly Ballroom 248
- Four Weddings and a Funeral 257
- The American President 267
- As Good As It Gets 278.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0413749908
- OCLC:
- 49351129
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