1st Edition
Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com
By Betty Kaklamanidou
Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The romantic comedy has long been regarded as an inferior film genre by critics and scholars alike, accused of maintaining a strict narrative formula which is considered superficial and highly predictable. However, the genre has resisted the negative scholarly and critical comments and for the last three decades the steady increase in the numbers of romantic comedies position the genre among the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Battle of the Sexes Rom Com: To Be Continued? 3. The "New" Career Woman Rom Com 4. The Fantasy Rom Com 5. The Action Rom Com 6. The Teen Rom Com 7. The "Mature" Rom Com: Heroines and Heroes "of a Certain Age" 8. The Baby-Crazed Rom Com 9. The Man-Com Cluster 10. The Indie Rom Com 11. Romantic Comedy and the "Other:" Race, Ethnicity, and the Transcendental Star
Biography
Betty Kaklamanidou is lecturer in Film History and Theory at the Film Studies Department at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
