Passionate love and popular cinema [electronic resource] : romance and film genre /
Todd, Erica,1984-author.
This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love story as a cinematic form, it also contributes, through comparison, to research on the romantic comedy.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Depicting Love in Cinema; Cultural assumptions about love; Popular concepts of love; Differentiating passionate love and companionate love; Genre and romance; Presenting passion in cinema; 1 Passionate Love in Hollywood and the Romantic Drama Genre; Considering the Hollywood romantic drama; Adventurer hero, sheltered heroine and their suffering; Exotic settings; Physically fleeting relationships; Symbolically eternal love; Intricacies of the romantic drama
2 Passionate Love in Early Hollywood Romantic DramasBringing the passionate archetype to screen; Early social and political influences; Shaping gendered conventions through actors and characters; Methods of portraying passionate love as exotic; The duality of memory and nostalgia; 3 Passionate Love in Hollywood Romantic Dramas 1950s-1970s; Passionate love on a grand scale; Passion, sex and female agency; Irrationality, youth and evolving character types; Emphasis on romantic music themes; 4 Passionate Love in Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Dramas
Glamorisation of the past and contemporary progressThe heroine's image and mother-daughter relationships; The male romantic hero and star personae; Amplified significance of musical themes; The 'happy ending' mentality; Conclusion: The Changing Landscape of Passionate Love in Cinema; The changing landscape of passionate love in hollywood; Beyond hollywood: the passionate love story abroad; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love story as a cinematic form, it also contributes, through comparison, to research on the romantic comedy.
Love in motion pictures.
Romance films
Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Film History.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Family.