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Falling in Love Again : Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema.

Abbott, Stacey.

Falling in Love Again : Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema.

Abbott, Stacey.

9780857712530

Abbott, Stacey.

1 online resource (269 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - A Lot Like Love: The Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema -- Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn -- 1. I ♥ NY: The Rom-Com's Love Affair with New York City -- Deborah Jermyn -- 2. Music, Ritual and Genre in Edward Burns' Indie Romantic Comedies -- Robynn J. Stilwell -- 3. Après le Coup de Foudre: Narrative, Love and Spectatorship in Groundhog Day -- Paul Sutton -- 4. Prom-Coms: Reliving the Dreams and Nightmares of High-School Romance -- Stacey Abbott -- 5. The Healing Power of Romantic Love in Popular Indian Comedies: Raja Hindustani: Home Elsewhere and Elsewhere Home -- Sean Redmond -- 6. A 'Special Relationship'?: The Coupling of Britain and America in Working Title's Romantic Comedies -- Annabelle Honess Roe -- 7. Transatlantic Exchanges and Influences: Décalage horaire (Jet Lag), Gender and Romantic Comedy à la francaise -- Brigitte Rollet -- 8. Romantic Comedies and the Raced Body -- Karen Bowdre -- 9. Armed and Fabulous: Miss Congeniality's Queer Rom-Com -- Claire Hines -- 10. What a Difference a Gay Makes: Marriage in the 1990s Romantic Comedy -- Kyle Stevens -- 11. Homme-Com: Engendering Change in Contemporary Romantic Comedy -- Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- 12. Lost in Transition: Problems of Modern (Heterosexual) Romance and the Catatonic Male Hero in the Post-Femminist Age -- Janet McCabe -- 13. A New Direction in Comedian Comedy?: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch-Drunk Love and Post-Comedian Rom-Com -- Lesley Harbidge -- 14. 'I Believe that if I haven't Found my Prince Charming Already that I Will -- or he Will Find me, if he Hasn't Already': Jennifer Lopez, Romantic Comedy and Contemporary Stardom -- Alan Dodd and Martin Fradley -- 15. Le Divorce: Romance, Separation and Reconciliation -- Hilary Radner -- Notes.

Filmography -- Teleography -- Bibliography -- Index.

Romantic comedy has long been a mainstay of the movies, from the classic screwballs of the 1930s, through Woody Allen's 'nervous comedies' of The 1970s, to the current great Hollywood revival, featuring such movies as 'Maid in Manhattan' and 'Lost in Translation'; yet rom-coms have often struggled to be taken seriously._x000D_ _x000D_ This original anthology from an international collection of contributors updates, revisits and reflects on today's romantic comedies. It considers the films and issues that illustrate the breathtaking diversity of the genre, from the queer pleasures of 'Miss Congeniality' and the rom-com persona of J-Lo and Bill Murray, to high school prom-coms and indie romantic comedies. It also explores the new male-centred romances like 'Wedding Crashers' and looks further afield into the healing power of romantic love in the Bollywood hit 'Raja Hindustani'. _x000D_ _x000D_ These themes and more are covered in a book that takes the romantic comedy seriously, while also examining the many pleasures of this continually regenerating film form.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Love in motion pictures.

Romantic comedy films -- History and criticism.

Electronic books.

Jermyn, Deborah.

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