num_pages: 144
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 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 Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You've Got Mail (1998).
language: English
title: Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre
titlecomplete: Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre (Short Cuts)
genres: Film, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 38
publisher: Wallflower Press