Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre (Short Cuts)
Book Details
Author(s)
Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher
Wallflower Press
ISBN / ASIN
1905674023
ISBN-13
9781905674022
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#821,404
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Description
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).
