The Hollywood romantic comedy
Subtitle: conventions, history, controversies
By: Leger Grindon
Series: New approaches to film genre; New approaches to film genre
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781405182669; 9781405182652
Subjects: History and criticism; Love in motion pictures; Romantic comedy films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: History, cycles and society; title: Thinking seriously about laughter and romance; title: What is the trouble in paradise? : Trouble in paradise (1932); title: Jailbreak : His girl friday (1940); title: The home front romantic comedy and The miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944); title: Anatomy lesson : Adam's rib (1949); title: Riding sidesaddle in Some like it hot (1959); title: Counter conventions and cultural change in The graduate (1967); title: The trials of partnership in Annie Hall (1977); title: Friendship, sex and courtship in When Harry met Sally (1989); title: Parody and the grotesque in There's something about Mary (1998); title: Women's ambivalence in Waitress.