Hollywood romantic comedy : states of the union, 1934-65 /
Exploring the changing representation of the couple in romantic comedy and focusing on the key themes of marriage, equality and desire, this work analyses the discourses around heterosexuality, gender, romance and love.
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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Manchester ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
2006.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv18b5jnj |
Sumário:
- Genre, cycles and critical traditions
- The same but different : marriage, remarriage and screwball comedy
- Making marriage fun : Myrna Loy and William Powell
- A little difference : equality and the career woman comedy
- Economy and excess : Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
- Possess me : consuming desires in the sex comedy
- The must be a boy! Doris Day and Rock Hudson.