Happy Endings and Films
Publisher: Michel Houdiard Editeur; MICHEL HOUDIARD
Published: 2010
Place of publication: France
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9782356920348
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Part one: Defining happy endings in classical films; title: 1. Does the Hollywood ‘Happy Ending’ Exist?; title: James MacDowell; title: 2. 'How do you mean, happy?' Towards a typology of classical Hollywood endings; title: Dominique Sipière; title: 3. 'And they lived happily ever after... or did they?' Matrimony as a False Ending in (Post-)Classical Hollywood Fictions of Re/Marriage; title: Serge Chauvin,; title: Part two: Cinema d’auteur; title: 4. The Dynamics of the Happy Ending in Oscar Micheaux’s Body and Soul (1925); title: Laetitia Lefèvre-Thierry; title: 5. Woody Allen’s Impossible Tragedy: Tragic Expectations and Happy Ending in Match Point »; title: Ronan Ludot-Vlazak; title: Part three: Heritage Films; title: 6. ‘I’d rather be watching Jane Austen’: Enhancing Wish Fulfilment in the ‘Austen Films’; title: Ariane Hudelet; title: 7. Heritage and Happy Endings: Adapting to Audience Expectations; title: Shannon Wells-Lassagne; title: Part four: Romantic Comedies; title: 8. Tales of the Millennium (Park): The Happy Ending and the Magic Cityscape of Contemporary Romantic Comedy; title: Celestino Deleyto; title: 9. 'Not Quite the End': The Boundaries of Narrative Closure in Hollywood Romantic Comedy; title: Manuela Ruiz Pardos; title: 10. The Pursuit of Happiness in Contemporary American RomComs: Ending in Bliss in Rob Reiner's When Harry Meets Sally (1989) and Nancy Meyers's The Holiday (2006); title: Taina Tuhkunen; title: Part five: New Trends; title: 11. From Sweet to Bitter: of Happy Endings in Contemporary Film; title: Armelle Parey; title: 12. Precarious Teleologies: New Endings for a New Genre.; title: María del Mar Azcona; title: Selective Bibliography; title: Notes on contributors; title: Index