The secret life of romantic comedy /
'The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the s...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Мова: | Англійська |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Серія: | Manchester Film Studies
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| Онлайн доступ: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996356 |
Зміст:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The theory of romantic comedy
- Romantic comedy and laughter
- Happy endings, forgotten middles and the ideology of romantic comedy
- The space of romantic comedy
- The Sydney issue
- Genres and films
- 2. Comic negotiations
- I. Laughter, love and World War II: *To be or not to be*
- Love and the invasion of Poland
- A table for three: the love triangle
- Lubitsch meets screwball royalty
- That great, great Polish actor
- Performing love, performing war
- II. Romantic comedy in no man's land: Kiss me, stupid
- Romantic comedy in the 1950s
- Satire and comedy
- Moral standards and character identification
- Climaxing in Climax
- Bang, bang
- Comic combinations
- 3. Romantic comedy on the dark side
- I. The other thrills of *Rear window*
- Look at me
- Society calling
- It started with a kiss
- The neverending story
- II. The space of comedy and beyond: *Crimes and misdemeanors*
- Love, faith and the comic space
- Inside the Statue of Liberty or love in the time of cholera
- Splitting genres
- The fisher king and the future generations
- 4. Contemporary romantic comedy and the discourse of independence
- Love in real time: *Before sunset*
- The realities of love
- Walking and talking
- Sex and the city
- Bibliography
- Index.