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

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.