The Hollywood romantic comedy : conventions, history, controversies / Leger Grindon.
Material type: TextSeries: New approaches to film genrePublication details: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781444395969
- 1444395963
- 9781444395945
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- 9781283408363
- 791.43/617 791.436543
- PN1995.9.C55 G75 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- History, cycles and society -- Thinking seriously about laughter and romance -- What is the trouble in paradise? : Trouble in paradise (1932) -- Jailbreak : His girl friday (1940) -- The home front romantic comedy and The miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) -- Anatomy lesson : Adam's rib (1949) -- Riding sidesaddle in Some like it hot (1959) -- Counter conventions and cultural change in The graduate (1967) -- The trials of partnership in Annie Hall (1977) -- Friendship, sex and courtship in When Harry met Sally (1989) -- Parody and the grotesque in There's something about Mary (1998) -- Women's ambivalence in Waitress.
The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films.
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