1st Edition
Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy Gender as Genre
By John Alberti
Copyright 2013
124 Pages
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136 Pages
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136 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist... Read more
1. Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender and/as Genre 2. "'I Love You, Man': Gender Genre Instability in the Bromance" 3. The Emergence of the Anxious Romance:Mumblecore, Neorealism, and Gender Play 4. Greenberg: The Anxious Romance and the Future(s) of the Romantic Comedy
Biography
John Alberti is Professor of English and Director of Cinema Studies at Northern Kentucky University, USA.
