Synopses & Reviews
Taking into account romantic comedy's current popularity and the genre's adaptability to changing historical circumstances, as well as its powerful tendency to contain and assimilate social changes, this book explores the complex ways in which recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy. Focusing on a wide range of well-known films (including Working Girl, Murphy's Romance, Peggy Sue Got Married, When Harry Met Sally, Green Card) the chapters cover topics relating to formal, historical and ideological questions, including issues of romance, love and female subjectivity.
Synopsis
This book explores the complex ways in which recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy.
Synopsis
Focusing on a wide range of well-known films (including Working Girl , Murphy's Romance , Peggy Sue Got Married , When Harry Met Sally , and Green Card ), this book explores the complex ways in which recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy.
Synopsis
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Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
About the Author
Celestino Deleyto is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Zaragon, Spain
Table of Contents
Introduction : Surviving love / Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto -- Love lies : romantic fabrication in contemporary romantic comedy / Frank Krutnik -- 'I think I could fall in love with him' : Victor/Victoria and the 'drag' of romantic comedy / Steven Cohan -- Murphy's romance : romantic love and the everyday / Deborah Thomas -- Something wild : take a walk on the wild side (but be home before midnight) / Constanza del Râio -- Time trips and other tropes : Peggy Sue got married and the metaphysics of romantic comedy / Bruce Babington -- Working girl : a case study of achievement by women? New opportunities, old realities / Chantal Cornut-Gentille -- Love and other triangles : Alice and the conventions of romantic comedy / Celestino Deleyto -- The fever and the itch : matching plots in Spike Lee's Jungle fever / Isabel C. Santaolalla -- Allison Anders's Gas food lodging : independent cinema and the new romance / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn -- Meg Ryan, megastar / Peter William Evans.