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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).
Price: $23.00
Pages: 144
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: WallFlower Press
Series: Short Cuts
Publication Date:
10 April 2007
Trim Size: 8.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781905674022
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
This volume crams everything from Doris Day to The 40 Year-Old Virgin into its 117 pages. Each of its five broad catagories is examined over the lifespan of the genre and includes valuable case studies. Highly recommended.
Tamar Jeffers McDonald is lecturer in film studies at Rutherford College, University of Kent, United Kingdom. She is the author of the forthcoming Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume in Mainstream Film and editor of Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Romantic Comedy and Genre
2. Screwball Comedies
3. The Sex Comedy
4. The Radical Romantic Comedy
5. The Neo-Traditional Romantic Comedy
Conclusion
Notes
Appendices
Filmography
Bibliography
Index