Romantic comedy : boy meets girl meets genre /
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Author / Creator: | McDonald, Tamar Jeffers. |
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Wallflower, 2007. |
Description: | 133 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Short cuts Short cuts (London, England) ; 34. |
Subject: | Romantic comedy films -- History and criticism. Romantic comedy films. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6418002 |
Summary: | 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). |
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Item Description: | "A Wallflower paperback"--T.p. verso. |
Physical Description: | 133 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129) and index. Filmography: p. 120-124. |
ISBN: | 1905674023 (pbk.) 9781905674022 (pbk.) |