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Romantic comedy : boy meets girl meets genre / Tamar Jeffers McDonald.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.C55 M395 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonald, Tamar Jeffers.
- Series:
- Short cuts (London, England) ; 34.
- Short cuts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romantic comedy films--History and criticism.
- Romantic comedy films.
- Physical Description:
- 133 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Wallflower, 2007.
- Summary:
- Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre offers an accessible introduction to one of the most popular but generally overlooked film genres. This study provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining the iconography, narrative patterns and ideology which inform such films. Separate chapters discuss important sub-groupings within the genre: the screwball, the 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 discussed include Pillow Talk (1959). Annie Hall (1977) and You've Got Mail (1998).
- Contents:
- Romantic comedy and genre
- Screwball comedies
- The sex comedy
- The radical romantic comedy
- The neo-traditional romantic comedy.
- Notes:
- "A Wallflower paperback"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index.
- Filmography: pages 120-124.
- ISBN:
- 1905674023
- 9781905674022
- OCLC:
- 71808848
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